Seal Skin

(2018) This play explores the dangers of coveting what is not, and can never be, ours. This includes transgressions of boundaries, attempts to appropriate the “other,” and inabilities to separate the imagined from the real.  In it, a top marine biologist and seal specialist, wishing for the kind of discovery that "changes everything," comes across a beautifully unsettling, naked woman on the rocky Maine coast one night, just after he has found a complete, empty seal skin.  This event challenges everything he knows as a scientist.  It also threatens his tenuous marriage and raises--for him, his wife, the exotic newcomer, and us--questions about what happens when the ghosts of our past impel us to leave what we know and enter places we don't belong and can't survive. 

Cast: 
PWC Reading (2018): Peter Christian Hansen (Ben); Jane Froiland (Jillian); Shelby Richardson (Rima).
Authors: 
Jack Bushnell