The play tells the historical story of the love affair between the lesbian Nazi officer Anneliese Kohlmann and one of her female Jewish prisoners in Neuengamme concentration camp.
[2][failed verification][3] Under the Skin premièred at the LGBT center in Tel Aviv in 2014 and at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London in 2018.
[7] Judi Herman thought that "playwright Yonatan Calderon has wrought a short play of shocking beauty".
[9] Suzanne Frost thought that the play "digs deep into the human psyche to explore what war and what power does to people and what love can do".
[10] Kezia Niman found it a lyrical and thought-provoking play,[11] and Ian Foster called it a Bold fringe work and wrote that "Calderon makes a powerful case for really interrogating what we mean by morality, how we look at the past and how we let it shape us now.