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The limitations of being 17 again
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It’s possible that no one can capture the painful, wonderful sense of becoming at age 17 better than a 17-year-old themselves. That’s the age Laneikka Denne was when she wrote
Dead Skin. She’s now 19.
The play, about first love and family dysfunction and the ways our patriarchal society harms women and men alike, has a roiling urgency: every moment is almost too big to bear, every development of utmost significance to protagonist Andie (Denne).
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Teen playwright captures messy highs and lows of first love in Dead Skin
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It is possible no one can capture the painful, wonderful sense of becoming at age 17 better than a 17-year-old themselves. Thatâs the age Laneikka Denne was when she wrote
Dead Skin. Sheâs now 19.
Laneikka Denne, writer and star of the play
Dead Skin, is a talent to watch.
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The play, about first love and family dysfunction and the ways our patriarchal society harms women and men alike, has a roiling urgency: every moment is almost too big to bear, every development of utmost significance to protagonist Andie (Denne). Her crush strikes like a lightning bolt and we feel it; we see Maggie (Ruby Maishman) through her eyes: sheâs the be-all and end-all. When Andie finally works up the courage to ask her out, aud