Skin Tight Event – The New Theatre

Presented by Restless Ecstasy

“I’m not afraid, Tom. Sooner or later your life becomes parched. Its rivers run thin. Its mountains have melted into the distance as blue and cool as memories.”

An ordinary couple with an extraordinary love relive their darkest secrets, deepest passions and heart-breaking truths. One of New Zealand’s most popular and widely performed plays, this is the story of Tom and Elizabeth, who sell the farm, fight, make-up, love and grow old. A moving and magical love story, both passionate and brutal.

Inspired by Denis Glover’s poem The Magpies, Skin Tight was first produced at BATS Theatre in Wellington in 1994, the play went on to tour both New Zealand and Australia before transferring to the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1998, winning a Fringe First during a sell-out run. Subsequently enjoying multiple revivals in New Zealand and abroad, it continues to play internationally to acclaim.

Cast and Creatives

Owen Lindsay

Director

Anne Marie Sheridan

Producer

Madeleine Dunne

Cast

Barry John Kinsella

Cast

Colin Doran

Lighting and Sound Design

Reviews

“Dunne is a revelation…Kinsella a sheer joy.”

-- Chris O'Rourke, Arts Review
“…romantic, vigorous, erotic and chest-crushingly sad, in equal measure.”

-- Belinda Dillon, Exeunt Magazine
“The audience were entranced from the first moment. Warm, honest and touching”

-- Claire Arnold, Audience Review
“Brutality and tenderness are strange but seductive bedfellows in Gary Henderson’s two-hander, which evokes a loamy sense of place … and an even stronger appreciation of a long but not always untroubled marriage. Time is deceptive in Henderson’s dramatic world … this brief hour encapsulates a lifetime of love and disappointments, of resentments and betrayals, loss and the repeated discovery and delight of two people in each other’s bodies.”

-- Lyn Gardner, Guardian
“It is hard to imagine a finer rendering”
“Riveting physical theatre – athletic, balletic and erotic”
“One that no theatre-lover should miss”

-- No More Workhorse