Winner: VAULT Festival’s Pick of the Year Award
Nominated: four Off-West End Awards including Best New Play
SKIN A CAT TOURS UK
14th September – 20th October
“Hilarious, it’s also refreshingly honest and open… there’s something so rousing and refreshing about the whole production; this is bold and genuinely exciting new writing”
**** The Stage
Written by Isley Lynn // Directed by Blythe Stewart
Performed by Lydia Larson, Libby Rodliffe and Joe Eyre
“a witty, tender play” **** Financial Times (Edinburgh Fringe 2018)
“Skin a Cat still feels absolutely vital, the type of play I needed to see when I was 15”
**** Fest (Edinburgh Fringe 2018)
“Skin a Cat is a quiet revelation…a glorious, hopeful and eye-opening experience”
**** The List (Edinburgh Fringe 2018)
“funny, heart-warming and painfully relatable” ThreeWeeks (Edinburgh Fringe 2018) ****
“Avoids becoming an issue piece, becoming an altogether more interesting mediation on difference and the crushing pressure to be what is considered normal in a highly sexualised culture”. Lyn Gardner, The Guardian (London 2016)
“A genuinely moving and effortlessly charming production” **** Time Out (London 2016)
Following an immensely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018, a previous sell-out, award-winning run at The Vault Festival 2016 and a highly successful run at The Bunker London 2016, Rive Productions are delighted to bring Isley Lynn’s on tour.
Every teenager thinks they’re the only one not having sex. But for Alana (Lydia Larson), it may well be true. Every time she gets close to doing it, something just seems to get in the way. Soon she can’t help wondering if it’s this tricky for everyone else? Because no one ever said it would be this complicated.
With a kaleidoscope of off kilter characters, Skin A Cat follows Alana on an awkward sexual odyssey; from getting her first period at nine years old and freaking out her frantic mother, to watching bad porn at a house party, to a painful examination by an overly cheery gynaecologist – all in the pursuit of losing her virginity and finally becoming a woman, whatever that means.
Putting a young woman’s struggle with her sexuality front and centre, this semi-autobiographical story is like none you’ve seen before, yet it still feels achingly familiar, breaking stereotypes and hearts in the process. A story about one girl and her relatively rare (yet more common that you’d think) condition vaginismus. As entertaining as it is educational, Skin A Cat is a personal and unflinching look at the pressures of fitting in; an alternative coming of age story about going all the way.
Lydia Larson will be joined on stage by Libby Rodliffe and Joe Eyre.
Tour Dates:
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Date: 14th September Time: 2.15pm and 7.30pm Venue: Hightide Festival, Aldeburgh |
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Date: 18th & 19th September Time: 8pm Venue: The Wardrobe, Bristol Tickets: http://thewardrobetheatre.com/livetheatre/skin-a-cat/ |
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Date: 24th & 25th September Time: 7.45pm Venue: Theatr Clwyd, Mold, Flintshire (Wales) Tickets: https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/skin-a-cat/ |
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Date: 27th & 28th September Time: 8.00pm Venue: The Lowry, Salford |
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Date: 29th September Time: 7.30pm Venue: The Bunker, London |
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Date: 4th October Time: 7.30pm Venue: The Garage, Norwich |
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Date: 5th & 6th October Time: 7.30pm Venue: Exeter Phoenix Tickets: https://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/skin-a-cat/ |
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Date: 8th – 13th October Time: 7.30pm Venue: The Other Room, Cardiff Tickets: http://www.otherroomtheatre.com/en/whats-on/seasons/autumn-2018/skin-a-cat-by-isley-lynn/ |
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Date: 19th & 20th October Time: 7.45pm Venue: Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough |