Written,
directed and performed by Humphrey Bower
With music
by Leon Ewing
Blue
Room Theatre
April 24 –
May 12, 2012
It’s no
secret that I didn’t buy into the acclaim that surrounded Humphrey Bower’s
award-winning Wish last year. Despite the quality of the performances, and of
the production generally, in my view the story – of a lonely man’s emotional
and sexual relationship with a female gorilla – lacked the necessary wider
meaning or allegorical power to justify its lurid premise.
Bower
returns to the Blue Room with Skin, a first-person telling of the stories of
two Australian men in alien environments. It has all the strengths of Wish, and
the great advantage of having something real to say about us, and our lives.
Link here to the complete review in The West Australian
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