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Second Skin

Told in three interconnected monologues, Second Skin investigates the fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, and how one mistake can reverberate across generations.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 75 minutes

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Upon discovering her estranged mother is dying, Quinn returns to the home she fled long ago. As she cares for Sigrid, Quinn wrestles with unsettling childhood memories. What is Sigrid hiding? What do the bedtime stories of selkies she once told her daughter really mean? When a selkie comes ashore, seeking them both out, Quinn must decide if she really wants to know the secret Sigrid buried long ago. 

Told in three interconnected monologues, Second Skin investigates the fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, and how one mistake can reverberate across generations.

REVIEWS:

"The brilliance...is in weaving the vernacular of everyday with spookiness of the haunted."

 Picture this Post

"Long after this ghost story was finished, I was haunted by it."

 Chicago Reader

"Hauntingly beautiful...Moody and Poignant."

 Chicago Onstage

"Captures you from its first magnetic moments and just won't let you go."

 Chicago Onstage

"This play isn't your stereotypical horror story."

 Chicago Onstage

"It's a play that can't be told about; it must be experienced."

 Chicago Onstage

  • Casting: 3F
  • Casting Attributes: All Female

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Upon discovering her estranged mother is dying, Quinn returns to the home she fled long ago. As she cares for Sigrid, Quinn wrestles with unsettling childhood memories. What is Sigrid hiding? What do the bedtime stories of selkies she once told her daughter really mean? When a selkie comes ashore, seeking them both out, Quinn must decide if she really wants to know the secret Sigrid buried long ago. 

Told in three interconnected monologues, Second Skin investigates the fraught relationship between mothers and daughters, and how one mistake can reverberate across generations.

$19.95