Wild Dogs Under My Skirt NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (25)
See it if Entertaining & clever Samoan-driven theatrical experience with powerful and gifted performances. A wonderful evening in the theater.
Don't see it if You don’t like ethnic pacific humor & drama. Also, some of the cultural references might be lost on a number of New Yorkers.
See it if You want to see something unique. Unlike anything I have ever seen. Gorgeous 6 part harmony. 6 strong female characters.
Don't see it if you dont like different worlds. Dont like stories of racial/cultural conflict. Intense, loud in your face action. Minimal sets and staging. Read more
See it if Poetic (re)creation of an alien world, beautifully acted and cleverly staged. Raw and affecting.
Don't see it if Don’t like non-linear plays
See it if A unique piece of perf art w good music, danc&movin poetry written by NZ poet T.Avia&perform by6talent act on gender, sex abuse&alienation.
Don't see it if Ur looking x a play; Uwant2underst&transl every word; Umake no effort2get the strg msg behind voice,body lang&context foreig words are* Read more
See it if you want a visceral, multi-faceted, poetic perspective on the lives of Samoan women facing various challenges and formative experiences.
Don't see it if you want a singular narrative arc. This is pieced together from interrelated stories, similar to "For Colored Girls." Sometimes confusing.
See it if Somoan women who won't be confined by Dusky Maiden/Pacific Princess stereotypes unleash primal rage in story:"We have forgotten our women."
Don't see it if Some thick accents and syntax."Don't wear the trouser,except in the town/All the mens they like it too much Samoan/I'll wear you likeacloak" Read more
See it if you want exposure to Samoan gender issues including how women and transexual roles include food and sex abuse. Good dancing/bits of humor.
Don't see it if you want to understand it all & it's your first exposure to Samoan culture: accents, foreign language, cannabalism. Not a play-a performance
See it if 6 actresses take turns enacting poems of Samoan womanhood. Sexuality, coming-of-age, religion, family, food. Builds to intense ending.
Don't see it if You are not interested in a powerful physical performance that is occasionally confusing & drawn out. Multiple slices of life; no plot. Read more
Critic Reviews (2)
"A powerful and engrossing study of the lives of Samoan women and their uneasy cultural collision with New Zealand. Unfortunately, at the performance under review no program was given out to explain that the Pacific Island actresses each played discrete characters."
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"A rhythmic, exuberant and startling work of theater that resembles Ntozake Shange's choreopoem …a fierce, lively cast… there is enough that's both clear and compelling to transcend the barriers of language and culture - or, more precisely, to connect with our own."
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