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Theatre

Stands alongside Under Milk Wood: Shedding a Skin, at Soho Theatre, reviewed

12 March 2022

9:00 AM

12 March 2022

9:00 AM

Shedding a Skin

Soho Theatre, until 26 March

After the End

Theatre Royal Stratford East, until 26 March

Shedding a Skin opens with an office nightmare. Amanda is a mixed-race employee in a predominantly white firm who gets summoned to the boss’s room for a group photo. The only other workers present are black and they greet each other with the ‘black nod’ as she calls it. And the group includes a black cleaner dressed in a suit to ‘bump up the numbers’.

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