'Skin Tight' Shakily Dramatizes Denis Glover's Poem 'The Magpies'
“Skin Tight,” a 60-minute play by New Zealand playwright Gary Henderson, is a portrait of a marriage. Essentially a two-hander (Dan Herrmann, playing the male character as a very old man, walks on in the final minute), it tells of the shared life of Tom (Peter Saide) and Elizabeth (Sarah-Jane Casey) on a New Zealand farm. The press material advises that the play is based on a famous New Zealand poem, &ldq…