KC Repertory "Whipping Man" review by Deborah Hirsch

"Kiss my emancipated ass" doesn't sound very Civil War-era to me, but I wasn't there. Neither was playwright Matthew Lopez, but his The Whipping Man — directed at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre by Eric Rosen — mostly succeeds in transporting us to the uncertain and still dangerous, chaotic days just after the Civil War's end.

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