SKINSHOW

Risen From The Grave…Emerging From the Deep…Crawling, Creeping Horrors…Hell-Bent on Freedom at any Cost!

Backstage at a neon-lit cabaret, two inhuman performers prepare for their entrances: Frankenstein’s Monster and The Creature from The Black Lagoon cycle through their dressing room as a normal night of work slides into a grasp for connection, a storm of vicious self-scrutiny, and euphoric self-expression. 

In an original performance that weaves together expressive movement, soliloquy, and B-Movie camp, performers and writers R.L. Routh and Claire Elizabeth Aldridge dissect queer identity, sapphic yearning, and dysphoria through the lens of monsterdom. Underscored with a soundscape by designer Kora Link and projections by Taz Coffey, SKINSHOW is an unforgettable new perspective on the horrors of being human.

Basement Stair Collective is a Portland-based theatre company creating immersive new works through a collaborative, design- forward process, delving into the dark corners of the human experience to shed light on the spaces between grief and joy, the flesh and the soul, and the personal and the political. More at: basementstaircollective.org