Produced for Soho Theatre
SHEDDING A SKIN
by Amanda Wilkin
directed by Elayce Ismail
Soho Theatre
2021 & 2022
A story for our times, Shedding A Skin is about finding kindness in unexpected places, moments of connection, intergenerational friendship and joy.
Amanda Wilkin’s spellbinding debut play won the Verity Bargate Award in 2020, captivating the judging panel comprised of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Russell T Davies, Lolita Chakrabarti, Laura Wade and Stephen Garrett of Character 7 and premiered at Soho Theatre in June 2021, in a critically acclaimed production directed by Elayce Ismail.
Profound, modern, funny, stark and hopeful. I was not prepared to be kidnapped by a play and a voice so completely.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Beautifully written, contemporary, poetic and delicate.
Lolita Chakrabati
It’s heartfelt, it’s mysterious, it says a lot about the world, it’s really, really brilliant.
Russell T Davies
She’s captured a generation. It’s a work of incredible beauty and great wit, she will go far.
Stephen Garrett
The Verity Bargate Award is Soho Theatre’s flagship new-writing award, sponsored by Character 7. Since 1982, the biennial playwriting award competition has uncovered the best new play by an emerging UK and Irish writer and launched the careers of some of Britain’s most established writers.
★★★★★ ‘real and relatable, generously peppered with jokes’ – Afridiziak
★★★★ ‘brilliantly engaging’ – The Arts Desk
‘a fabulous piece of theatre…superbly performed’ – The Spectator
‘Wilkin brilliantly draws the audience into her world, leaving them hanging on her every word with all the skill of a stand-up comic’ – The British Blacklist
★★★★★ ‘one of the most joyous pieces of writing that has ever graced this stage in Soho’ – WhatsOnStage
★★★★★ Upcoming, Everything Theatre, Rev Stan’s Theatre Blog, Please Mind the Blog
★★★★ Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, The Stage, Broadway Baby, Reviews Hub, LondonTheatre1
Director: Elayce Ismail
Set and Costume Designer: Rosanna Vize
Lighting Designer: Jess Bernberg
Sound Designer and Composer: Richard Hammarton
Associate Sound Designer: Max Pappenheim
Assistant Director: Myah Jeffers
Photography: Helen Murray
Sponsored by NJA, Core Values & Creative Management
Producer: David Luff for Soho Theatre