| THE ANTIQUITIES Yesterday (Probable Spolier) | |
| Last Edit: sergius 07:42 am EST 01/27/25 | |
| Posted by: sergius 07:40 am EST 01/27/25 | |
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| We begin and we end. Eventually, we are all antiquities. Jordan Harrison’s depiction of human history from the early 19th century to about the 23rd century when, presumably, our extinction arrives, is intellectually precise but largely uninvolving. THE ANTIQUITIES goes forward and then back, delineating the self destruction of our species. It’s a structurally neat play, but it’s routinely listless, tedious even. Harrison has nothing new to tell us here. His earlier play, MAJORIE PRIME, dealt less didactically with similar themes. It’s no surprise that we may be engineering the demise of our species. In a world where, increasingly, intelligence is artificial and reality is virtual, there is diminishing hope for the advancement of personhood. The play advises us of that which we know: time is fleet and our struggles to move forward often take us back. We’re all living—and then not—history. THE ANTIQUITIES is intellectually rigorous, and unsurprisingly well directed by David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan, but it’s static. Harrison doesn’t dynamize our despair, he embalms it. | |
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