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INDIE PURCELL recommends a more than promising debut play by Amanda Wilkin
Shedding a Skin: Amanda Wilkin as Myah
[Helen Murray]
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Shedding a Skin
Soho Theatre, London
MYAH, Amanda Wilkin’s sole character in her funny, poignant, and profound debut play, knows what it’s like to feel discontented, empty even.
“I would rather be anywhere,” she declares in the opening scene of Shedding a Skin. “Anywhere else in the world. rather than here.”
Many will know the feeling of being stuck with a bad job, bad relationship and a bad bank balance.
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