Without Skin or Breathlessness

Without Skin or Breathlessness

"Without Skin or Breathlessness" is playwright Tanya Barfield's widely anthologized solo performance about a white mother looking back on the childhood of her biracial (half-black) child. The performance was chronicled in the solo performance anthology "O Solo Homo."


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