Two plays, from Rorschach Theatre and Washington Stage Guild, are about collectors (human and otherwise).
gasped its last, and the robots who remain are preparing an off-kilter tribute: With trillions of terabytes of data and an Earth landfilled with mankind’s artifacts, the AI curators at the Human Museum have picked 20th-century disaster movies as the framing lens for their shiny new exhibition. That’s the promisingly metafictional conceit that frames Miyoko Conley’s puckish new post-apocalyptic comedy — even if it doesn’t rank among the somewhat headier concerns that actually drive the show.
Without shortchanging those thematic concerns , the imaginative actual intelligences ofhave leaned into the whimsical frame: Old hands at using odd venues to tell unusual tales, director Randy Baker and his creative team have built “Human Museum” into a disused downtown retail space, developing what’s on Conley’s pages to deliver a show-going experience that starts at the street-level entrance and proves easily as entertaining as the events that’ll transpire on the stage downstairs.
An ensemble effort of the most appetizing kind, Rorschach’s staging of “Human Museum” throws an attic’s worth of ephemera into realizing Conley’s idiosyncratic futurescape, with a look and feel so agreeably cluttered there’s almost no distinguishing between props, costumes, set pieces and makeup design.
“Human Museum” from Rorschach Theatre, through May 5 at 1020 Connecticut Ave. NW. About 90 minutes without intermission.
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