SELKIE
By Andrew Andrews
Krista Knight’s SELKIE starts out innocently enough: a young, married couple named Deanna (Toni Ann DeNoble) and Keaton (Federico Rodriguez) move to a tropical island for
“I want to flash my tits,”
“There’s only two of us here,”
“For now...” she replies.
Did somebody say foreshadowing?
It turns out, Deanna is “trying really
And Keaton is trying really hard to carve out a spot in
So much for innocence.
When Deanna befriends a harem of
If the seal women will mule the drugs for him as they travel from port to port,
“I made little backpacks you can strap,” Keaton explains.
But the seal women just
So what do you do in
Well, it turns out that whoever controls a
And then, as Deanna puts it, “Every single thing that could have
On a perfect set (Reid Thompson) that changes its setting with the draw of a curtain, and projections (Yana Birykova) that alternate between supplementing the scene and invoking a mood, the production by Dutch Kills Theater Company follows-up their
“Men will keep us their slaves for as long as they can hold
And that’s exactly what Keaton does.
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Andrew Andrews attended SELKIE at Wild Project in Manhattan on Wednesday, December 5, 2018 @ 8:00pm to write this review.