Shivah/Proper

A woman speaks of haunting pains to a just-killed corpse; a doctor shadow boxes through his own tale, interrupted by bouts of nursing; a man is beaten by strangers while mourning and then tells his story through stolen teeth; and a woman searches for her missing body in the body of her husband. The relationships in MKS Volcofsky’s Shivah/Proper are constant yet vividly unstable: the position of lover, parent, spouse, child, sibling, enemy, friend and slave–embodied by one, then another of the sides.