Please RSVP to SKINthePlay@gmail.com to reserve tickets. Parental advisory: May not be appropriate for those under age 18.
“SKIN is tender, playful, clever, and nuanced—with lots of laughs... I highly recommend this play." —Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, co-founder with The Mattress Project’s Emma Sulkowicz of Columbia activist group No Red Tape
“Beautiful, moving, raw, and real… as deeply investigated as anything Woolf wrote.” —Brian McManamon, Artistic Dir., Stratford Shakespeare Academy...
Please RSVP to SKINthePlay@gmail.com to reserve tickets. Parental advisory: May not be appropriate for those under age 18.
“SKIN is tender, playful, clever, and nuanced—with lots of laughs... I highly recommend this play." —Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, co-founder with The Mattress Project’s Emma Sulkowicz of Columbia activist group No Red Tape
“Beautiful, moving, raw, and real… as deeply investigated as anything Woolf wrote.” —Brian McManamon, Artistic Dir., Stratford Shakespeare Academy
“A Woolfian exploration of consciousness by a true artist.” —OBIE & Lortel winner, Martin Moran, “The Tricky Part” & “All the Rage”
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Join us for a frank and funny performance with music & a talkback about transcending sexual violence--to benefit student- and youth-led nonprofit Know Your IX. Event Co-Sponsored by Theaterlab, Yale GALA, Columbia Pride, and Good Dog/Bad Dog Productions.
A workshop presentation of
SKIN
Written and performed by Hope Singsen
Music by Hope Singsen, Bob Parins,
Dillon Kondor and Micah Burgess
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Saturday, Sep 24 @8PM
Talkback to follow with Sejal Singh of Know Your IX
and
Sunday, Sep 25 @2pm
Suggested donation $15 ($5 Students) to benefit Know Your IX
To reserve seats: Email SKINthePlay@gmail.com
About SKIN:
Two things threaten Marais’ dissertation on Virginia Woolf: Her hot new girlfriend—and her own dark past. When confronted by echoes of sexual trauma in Woolf’s work, Marais races to write herself into a happier future. She commits body and soul to secure a love greater than any she's known before. But after you learn to guard against life, can you open up again? Trigger warning: brief descriptions of sexual violence.
About Know Your IX
Founded in 2013, Know Your IX is a survivor- and youth-led organization that aims to empower college and high school students to end sexual and gender-based violence in their schools. We educate students about their legal rights to safe educations; we train, organize and support student survivor activists at over 200 schools; and we advocate for policy change at the campus, state, and federal levels. The White House attributed the creation of its 2014 Task Force on Campus Sexual Assault to our activism, and the U.S. Secretary of Education publicly thanked Know Your IX for demanding his attention — and the country’s. In 2015, Politico Magazine named Know Your IX one of the 50 ideas transforming American politics. For more and to get involved, visit KnowYourIX.org.
About Theaterlab:
This performance of Skin is co-sponsored by Theaterlab, a company noted for curating and presenting new, experimental and hybrid work for theater as well as the visual arts. Theaterlab will present its Fall in Love with Solo season, celebrating the power and potential of the solo artist, September through November 2016. For information, visit theaterlabnyc.com.
About Yale GALA, Inc.:
Yale University's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Alumni Association is an educational and cultural organization that seeks to promote the well-being and betterment of the Yale University gay and lesbian community, including alumni, faculty, students and the public at large. To join, visit yalegala.org.