Second Skin

Brava! for Women in the Arts and Dell’Arte present Second Skin – using the magic of masks and the wit and talent of a master performer to transport the audience on an all-soul’s journey to the threshold of the afterlife. Created and performed by Joan Schirle, Dell’Arte’s co-artistic director. In a series of virtuoso transformations in this solo mask production, Schirle introduces the audience to a group of 15 distinct characters, all connected to a young woman who believe she possess the living soul of Marilyn Monroe. With movement, music, masks, dance and her ability to voice young and old, male and female, trashy and wise, Schirle embodies the art of the total performer in this style of dynamic and physical theatre.