Shedding a Skin

Sometimes you crack.
Sometimes you didn't mean to yell that.
Sometimes you have to lay low until you've figured it out
And sometimes, sometimes you have to hibernate until you've healed.
This is a new day.

VERITY BARGATE AWARD: WINNER
SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE: FINALIST

Newly unemployed and single, Myah rents a room on the fifteenth floor of a tower block. Sharing the flat with her older Jamaican landlady Mildred is awkward at first, but then an unlikely friendship blooms.

Shedding a Skin is a story for our times. It's a play about finding kindness in unexpected places; about understanding what our elders can teach us; it's new skin honouring old.

Amanda Wilkin's beautiful monologue about joy, healing and protest premiered at Soho Theatre, London, in June 2021.