←Recommendations of Skin Song

This is the type of visceral, highly theatrical play that I couldn't help but design in my head as I was reading. What's really incredible about this script, however, is that I could HEAR it, which seems to be by design - sound and silence are the main characters in this gorgeous, mournful fairytale world, which would make the audience experience immersive, adding a rich level of dimension you can't find in just any script. Those looking for a compelling queer myth will fall in love with this script, as I have.

This play is the intense and captivating queer story I didn't know I needed.

Skin Song feels like an Irish fable - lyrical, romantic, wild, a little sad. It's impressive how Katherine is able to create such nuanced and charged relationships between characters who fundamentally can't understand one other. The storytelling in this script is so visually creative, I found my imagination filling out the staging within the first few pages.

I know very few plays that utilize silence so effectively in a story about language and communication. A unique story that begins slow, and then continues moving slowly, and then suddenly you realize you've been completely wrapped up in it. The wide range of possibilities for how this story can be told onstage is particularly thrilling, and its deft balance of myth and heart will sway audiences of all kinds.

Dreamy, mythic, and contemplative; I've never seen a play use forms of language and music like this. I loved the subtlety in the relationships and the complex, partially selfish longing present in every character. SO many exciting possibilities for what this could look like onstage.

A harmony of different modes of communication that I would love to see on stage. The characters sweep you away in their loneliness and yearning.

Gorgeous, lyrical piece that combines movement, ASL, music, exquisite poetry, and incredibly "human" (I only put in quotations because of the fantastical elements of the piece) characters. Undine's relationships with both Doug and Gwen are complex, nuanced, and exciting, and the exploration of the trespasses in the relationship between Gwen and Undine is heartbreaking. I'd so love to see this realized onstage!

An exquisite poetic piece telling a story of what love is and isn't. Beautiful!

This is more than a play. This is a symphony, an epic poem and a living painting all in a modern fairy tale. There are so many lessons to be learned in this piece and though it has an aura of sadness, I still see the hope at the end. For everyone. Love is not something to be possessed. It is to be shared. And so is this play.

A dreamy, poetic theater piece that captivated me from the second I started reading. Gwynn has a very unique and effortless voice and this play is a fun folkloric sexy angsty romp like listening to a good joanna newsom CD.