Playwright

• Mallory Fisher

Director

• Meghan Greeley

Cast

• Mallory Fisher Sivvy
• Brooke Adams Patience

Crew

• Heather Rumancik Technical Director
• Alison Helmer Set & Costume Designer
• Mara Bredovskis Lighting & Projection Designer
• Kathryn Burke Sound Designer
• Andrya Duff Movement Designer
• Hanaa Mekawy Mentee
• Lina Makaga Mentee
• Joseph Dennis Stage Manager

Description

Patience is convinced her sister Sivvy is trapped inside her mother’s ribcage. She plots to murder her mother to set her sister free. Patience and Sivvy talk to each other—and the audience—through the giant ribcage through their mother’s skin. Sivvy rails against her toxic body image and food obsession. Patience fights the internalized misogyny she’s absorbed from religious doctrine. As they unravel their repression, locate their oppressors, and fight to be born, they tear their mother’s body apart. Sivvy uncovers a previously buried truth about her sexuality while Patience discovers she’s funneling her destructive rage into the wrong vessel of unlove. Motherskin examines the blurry, rewarding, and treacherous relationship between two women who are maybe sisters, maybe lovers, and certainly ancestrally connected.

Production type

• RCA Presentation

Producing Partners

• White Rooster Theatre