Slanted Floors
“Guided by Ryan Dobrin’s crystalline direction, the dynamic between the couple is so viscerally specific and lived in a way that’s not constraining, but instead allows Slanted Floors to gearshift suddenly and miracously into mysterious realms - among plays I’ve seen this year, the haunting simplicity of this one’s closing image is tough to beat. I hope they keep doing this show for as long as they’re willing to keep making that soup” - Jackson McHenry, review for Vulture
“New York’s Most Exclusive Theater Show … Dobrin’s precise direction makes Slanted Floors feel bracingly natural” - Tim Teeman, review for The Daily Beast
“To quote an audience member I overheard outside after the show, Dobrin and McEntee are “the dream team of small space theatre,” and it shows in this piece … With perfectly scaled performances from both Kyle Beltran and Adam Chanler-Berat, the audience is invited to lean in instead of being pushed away, almost like we’re being told a secret that’s just for the handful of folks present in the room” - Allie Marotta, review for No Proscenium
Kaplan zips along his freelance day, dodging around his apartment from task to task, until his partner, Teddy, arrives home, ready to make dinner and wanting to share the story he’s been slowly and secretly gestating to himself. Staged for an audience of 6 every night in a Greenpoint apartment, Slanted Floors is a hyper-intimate look at queer domesticity, the sharing of artistic ideas, and the ways in which people who care deeply about each other can just slightly miss each other, and how to recover gently. Much of the play is hyper-realistic, as the audience are flies-on-the-wall of this couple as they ready dinner, eat, talk, share, and then get ready for bed, with moments of lifted stylized imagination - stepping inside the minds of these two, very different different artists.
Director: Ryan Dobrin
Production Stage Manager: Damayanti Wallace
Lighting & Sound Design: Nick Auer
Video Design: Dan Kuan Peeples
Food Design: Jess Tsang
Associate Director: Isabelle Chirls
Producer: Billy McEntee
Associate Producer: Ryan Dobrin
Ensemble: Kyle Beltran, Adam Chanler-Berat
Production: a Greenpoint Apartment, September-October 2025
Photos Courtesy of HanJie Chow
