Seven Layers of Skin at WOW Café, Dec. 13-15, 20, 21 & 27-29, 2001
conceived and directed
by Jasmine Presson
@ WOW Café Theatre, 59-61 E. 4th Street (between
bowery & 2nd ave)
Dec. 13-15, 20,
21 & 27-29
(no performance the 22nd)
All shows @ 8pm
Tickets: $20-10 sliding scale
Reservations/Information: 212-777-4280
F to 2nd Ave; 6 to Astor Pl.; N to 8th/Bwy
This is the psychology of skin. Scars, race, shedding, and a nipple accidentally exposed on the D train, however the possibility exists that was the Q. Performers: Darleen Hall, Jasmine Presson, Shoshana Ami, Liat Ron, Jamila K. Gaskins, and Alissa James.
Seven Layers of Skin is a collaboratively created performance by women exploring the physical and emotional phenomena of skin. Through candid conversation with the audience, stylized movement, dance and song, the characters and audience journey together through the wonder and pain, the personal and collective memory held in our skin. Issues explored include shedding, scars, skin's capacity for memory, race, self-cutting, skin creams, and the eternal search for touch, for love.
Contributing writers also include Darleen Hall, founder of Spit East, an all-grrl open mic in NYC; Shoshana Ami, Ronit Lee, Jamila K. Gaskins (Beautiful Like the Moon and Looking Back), Alissa James, Liat Ron, Nina Zavarin and Jasmine Presson.
Lighting Design:
Sandra Ivette Leon
Assistant Director: Christie N.G. White
Founded in 1980, WOW Café Theatre is a non-profit company producing new plays by women. Celebrating its twenty-first season, WOW continues to be a space run by and for women and their artistic endeavors.