Betwixt The Many Internments: Her Naked Skin in Reflections

Abstract

Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz enshrines a playwright’s remarkable ambition finding skin in the panorama of thespian architectonics. Being first performed on 24^th July 2008, it demonstrates a determination in its mettlesome acclaim towards rightful suffrage as a political struggle and an individuals’ strive against repression. It imprints an apotheosis of untramelled courage resisting the difficult and onerous confines of incarcerated bodies which were found between the many internments of mortifying afflictions. For it conceives an autonomy inaugurated in the espousal of a new faith hoisted by the many upholders drawn in the communion of resistance and realizations.

            This paper proposes to articulate the evocative reflections of history lensed in the clarion of the suffrage movement as defying bastions of coercion and physical duress bestrirred in its blazing towards a decisive battlecry. It also frames the advent of a performance narrative turning to history and lettered in the stories of unshackled claims aimed towards finding eloquence of the body. Embodying an account engirdled in the trappings of constraint and silence, the paper shall mount a literary unfolding realized in the courage of liberation and fostered in the movement and beyond.