[Review] 'The Reflecting Skin' A Portrait of American Gothic Awry

“Sometimes, terrible things happen quite naturally,” sighs Dolphin Blue, played by Lindsay Duncan in Phillip Ridley’s The Reflecting Skin (1990). Bad things are indeed happening on the lonely Dove farm. Ruth, her husband Luke, and young son Seth run an out of the way gas station during the 1950s. Ruth resents her husband and constantly badgers him […]