Slanted Floors Off-Broadway Reviews

And here is where the original production probably worked better; the entire (tiny) audience was made to feel a part of it, although (is this too pedestrian of me to notice) their presence is never really explained, or even acknowledged, other than i...

And here is where the original production probably worked better; the entire (tiny) audience was made to feel a part of it, although (is this too pedestrian of me to notice) their presence is never really explained, or even acknowledged, other than implicitly as characters; are they Kaplan and Teddy’s dinner guests? These are probably not questions that the soup-eaters themselves would wonder about, but the expanded transfer has created a new class of conventional audience members, who are kept at a distance, and can view what’s going on more conventionally.

Slanted Floors is, by nature, voyeuristic. Though it’s theatrical during Teddy’s monologue and Kaplan’s daytime showcase, the couple’s one-on-one interaction remains entirely grounded in reality, to the point where the audience feels like the...

Slanted Floors is, by nature, voyeuristic. Though it’s theatrical during Teddy’s monologue and Kaplan’s daytime showcase, the couple’s one-on-one interaction remains entirely grounded in reality, to the point where the audience feels like they’re intruding. Beltran, in particular, holds such extreme eye contact that I, at one point, found myself catching my breath.