About the Show

Explores humanity's past through a future lens, revealing our present in a new light.

At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, dedicated curators strive to resurrect a long-gone civilization: exploring what humans were truly like, their clothing, their diet, and the reasons for their extinction.

Jordan Harrison's new play transports us to the distant future, offering an eerie reflection on our current era, caught between the bygone analog age and an emerging post-human world.

Critic Reviews (15)

"timeline is the compelling if somewhat overbearing structural device"
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"new play exhibits real dangers of artificial intelligence"
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"...at the top of Harrison’s play, we learn that the robots have won and we’ve lost"
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"...skips across centuries, past and future"
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"The Distant Future Is Already Ancient History in A.I. Drama"
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The Antiquities is the story of how our own hard-won evolutionary impulses
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"sprawls across four and a half centuries, dispensing new characters and situations"
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"the play is one of those sci-fi cautionary tales that requires a suspension of disbelief"
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