←Recommendations of SKIN

A very funny comedy about the preparation required sometimes between family. Inventive and well done!

Tanuja Devi Jagernauth treats audiences and actresses alike to eye-bulging theatricality with her short play "Skin." There's gallows humor a-plenty mixed with a strong dose of fight choreography and symbolism. Yet the family's power dynamic, the foundation for Jagernauth's marvelous action & characters, makes it wholly relatable for audiences.

A really smart metaphorical and funny play about the complexity of a mother/daughter relationship. Bold in its language and theatricality, Jagernauth is an exciting voice for the theatre.

Jagernauth's short, sharp, deep, dark comedy about a malefic mother plays upon several razors' edges - balancing, proposing, suggesting an array of styles, stagings, and interpretations - with a script that might have put Dario Fo to the test, or Peter Handke and Martin McDonagh into a sweat; perhaps its potential is congenitally more W. C. Fields, Marx Brothers, Mel Brooks, etc. No matter. However you decide to make it, 'Skin' holds onto its themes, with Jagernauth again investigating the (both literal and metaphorical) physical limitations of the body, the deconstruction, construction, donning, and doffing of one shell for another.

This ten minute dark comedy takes on a dysfunctional mother-child dynamic and gives it an absurdist twist. The result is that the power struggle between an emotionally abusive parent and an adult child is dramatized in a clever and hilarious way. With knife throwing.

Tanuja once again shows an adventurous grasp of theatricality. A tumultuous mother/child relationship is literally depicted with throwing knives at the dinner table. Powerful visuals make this play a true dramatic adventure for the stage.

This dynamic play is packed with visuals that would make a staged reading compelling and a performance *sheer perfection*. How writer Jagernauth manages to create such a structurally sound, emotionally evocative, relatable and humorous piece — in fewer than ten pages — is a wonder! And this play pops out because of its truly original premise. It's TOO GOOD! Brava!

Squeezing this much symbolism, and humor, into a play about dodging knives, literal and figurative, is a tough ask. Ms. Jagernauth is more than up to the challenge. This play deftly handles the difficulties of navigating a relationship with a loved one in which every kind word can be misconstrued as a threat, every extended olive branch seen as a sword thrust. Humorous, heartfelt, and heavy.

This play will have you laughing at your own relationship with a beloved-strong-willed parent as well as leave you questioning the knives you let them throw at you. This play is dark, funny, and a riot.