Norm Foster’s Skin Flick is hilarious

Hudson Village Theatre successfully mounts latest play by Canada’s most prolific playwright

By Byron Toben

May 30, 2024

Hudson Village Theatre has done it again! It has mounted the latest by prolific playwright Norm Foster, who often features ordinary people caught in unusual circumstances.

Norm Foster, considered Canada’s most prolific playwright, sure knows how to work the crowd with plot twists.

In Skin Flick, a married couple, costume salesman Rollie Waters (David Anderson) and publicist Daphne Waters (Vickie Kuchlein) become financially strapped by their job losses. When friend and neighbour Alex Trott (Tommy Furino), a movie photographer, mentions the huge profits to made in porno films, they reluctantly decide to make one but lack an actress.

A possibility arrives in the visit of Jill (Marianna Del Giacco), a balloon-bearing message greeter to Rollie looking to break into movies but insists on choosing the man to act opposite her. After several rejected applicants, she decides on Byron (Andrew McLennan), a potential investor, who she mistakes for an applicant. Despite Byron’s initial shyness, all goes well.

A real crowd-pleaser cleverly directed by John Sheridan.

Norm Foster, considered Canada’s most prolific playwright, sure knows how to work the crowd with plot twists.

Skin Flick ran at Hudson Village Theatre from May 16 to 26.

Images: Karen-Burgan

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Byron Toben, a past president of The Montreal Press Club, has been WestmountMag.ca’s theatre reviewer since July 2015. Previously, he wrote for since-terminated websites Rover Arts and Charlebois Post, print weekly The Downtowner, and print monthly The Senior Times. He also is an expert consultant on U.S. work permits for Canadians.