Other body joints are openly lascivious, bending right
into the sexicon: skirts ride above the knees, he has an eye for a well-turned
ankle, hoochie-coochie girls are hip-shaking mamas, and lovers neck.
But, will no one come right out and address elbow
eroticism? Is this the last taboo?
That’s why Legally
Dead is cutting edge theater—blasting staid, middle-class conventions;
rewriting the rules; liberating us from the bonds of the forbidden. Never again can playwrights pretend that
elbows are not part of the human body and are not central to the arms that long
to hold you.
Yes, this is the play that dares to shatter convention.
