Exploring Her Naked Skin for performance

Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkewicz is an honest and brutal play. There are no hiding places in this text. It packs punches and doesn't take a breather either. It is a constant onslaught of challenging scenes, characters, context and content. For me, it holds everything that you would want for a truly epic piece of theatre; a challenging context with a big political plot intersecting a small intimate storyline.

Rebecca Lenkewicz's work is renowned for being dominated by the exploration of strong female characters and illuminating the lives of marginalised women. She cites her mother as an early influence. In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, she described her mother as a lioness, giving her and her four other siblings independence from an early age. This combination of challenging content and explosive characters are ideal for students. The writing, especially the characterisation, is just delicious and the tense relationships are brilliant to explore and perform.