"Kissing the Floor," written by Ellen McLaughlin and directed by Ianthe Demos, is a thought-provoking and disturbing play providing a compelling view into the hidden world of the dysfunctional psyche of a family. McLaughlin deftly explores questions of loyalty and obsession, fantasy and reality. She does so by presenting contemporary themes of personal and familial dysfunction in a radical recasting of the dramatic arc of Sophocles' Greek tragedy Antigone, yet retains some of that work's thematic and structural elements.
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" 'Kissing the Floor' was a well-conceived, powerful dramatization akin to the legendary “sins of the father,” ably expressing the overpowering tragedies of Antigone brought to life in the demise of a family during the Great Depression."
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Grim and heavy going, this is playwright Ellen McLaughlin’s resetting of Sophocles’ mythological Antigone to the 1930’s Depression era U.S.A. à la Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. The Grand Guignol twists and turns, atmospheric stagecraft and intense acting, all empower it for one hour and 40 minutes.
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