Substance And Shadow Theatre

The year is 1980. Born out of the cultural melting pot of Jamaica, London and Coventry, Ska and Two Tone music is sweeping the nation!

Skin Deep takes audiences on a Double Decker bus ride back to the eighties to experience how subcultures, that evolved in Britain’s major cities, sent shockwaves that reverberated across the UK and touched the hearts and minds of West Country youths.

From the ghettos of Kingston Jamaica, via The Kings Road to a Devon city, Skin Deep evokes memories of the unique culture of the eighties; the people and the places. It is a celebration of subculture that is comic, tragic and deeply poignant.

Four lives are touched and entwined forever by the music, fashion and culture of the day but friendships are stretched to the limit and bonds tested when Jem suddenly returns ‘home’ from London, bringing with him a new identity.

Secrets and jealousies from the past bubble to the surface, but why has Jem decided to return and what made him leave all those years ago?