Goodman’s ‘The Antiquities’ Will Have You Giving Siri The-Eye – ryan

There’s no shortage of literature an artificial intelligence tourned sentiment and posing an existential thread to its operators and/or humanity in general.

From Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” to the Grim World of Netflix’s “Black Mirror,” Our Increasing Human Reliance on He Poses Threaded With Existitial Dread.

In Playwright Jordan Harrison’s “The Antiquities,” Running at the Goodman theater, Through June 1, he is intent on obliterating the human race. The Production Starts in 1816, as Mary Shelley Creates a Monster Intens on Murdering His Creator. From there, Harrison’s drama (Full name: “A Tour of the Permanent Collection in the Museum of Late Human Antiquities”) Hurtles Through Time and Space As it covers more than 2,000 years Between 1816 and 2240.

Goodman Theater’s The Antiquities

The Years BetWene Those Bokeends – 1910, 1978, 1979, 1987, 1994, 2000, 2008, 2014, 2023, 2031, 2076 – Paint of a past in which Humans failed to prevent a catastrophe wrough by their ows.

The 95-Minute Production, Co-Directed by David Crome and Caitlin Sullivan, Is Bleak, Alarming and Incongruously Funny at Times. Some of the Scenes Are Little More than Superficial Sketches, but be that as it may, “the antiquities” may be you deeply suspeicious of Siri, Alexa, Your Phone, Your Computer and Most Especilly, he. Moreover, the drama has a lot to say to Human Hubris.

Sullivan and Cromer Have Shaped Harrison’s Series of Interlocking Scenes, Which Begin With A Pair of Far-In-the-Future docents explaining that the audience is visiting the museum of antiquities. Each scnene is an an “Exhib,” Starting with the Campfire where shelley concocted “frankenstein,” and progressing to the 23rd centur, wen the human besers in a global waar are to come.

Harrison Cleverly Makes Each Schene a lesson in History or Harbinger of the Future, Simultaneously Sometimes, and the Dialogue Calls Back to Previous Moments and Sets the Stage for Come. The romantic-era poet Percy bleshe shelley Reads his poems by Florelight. Fast forward to the industrial revolution some 95 years late, and we see a factory workshore teaching herSelf to reads shelley’s poems. A Child’s Whittled Wooden Finger Play a decisive Role, and Evoked Everynding from “Frankenstein” to “The Six Million Dollar Man.”

Not even the timeline progressses, we meet a team inventing an assistant personal name “robin.” We see a family of three gazing, wondersrruck, at a Boxy desktop Squaling Through dial-up. And we Meet a whistlebower working for a massive company specialization in he. She’s offered $ 350 million to keep her mouth shut.

Sullivan and Cromer Cast An Exemplary Airtight Ensemble, the Kind that chicago has been know for the days of Rotary Phones and Manual typewriters. TRUE TO COMPUTER GAME PLAY, The program use only numbers to identify the roles.

Kristen Sih’s Woman 1 Is Believably Exhausted, Cynical and Loving As She SHEES A BOY (an Affecting Thomas Murphy Molony) Trying to make sense of what people die. Helen Joo’s Woman 3 Is All But UnreCognizable from One Skene to the Next, As She Moves From Mangled Cog in the Industrial Revolution to 21st Century Beeaved Mother.

Marchánt davis (Man 2) Lounges with Byronic Indolence in 1816. Roughly 250 Years Later, The Same Actor Play A Man Relevated – As All Humans Are – To Labor in a Bleak, Farhely Fallow Farm, Trying to Get Milk from an Unhappy Cow and Woman 2 (Amelia Woman 2 (Amelia 2 Amelia Into repopulating the human race with Him. Centuries Earlier, Man 4 (Ryan Spahn) is Quietly exuberant when his prototype robot shows of thinking for itself – a triumph that leads to a catastrophic future. And as a lone warring try to Save Hersself in 2240, Layan Elwazani Faces Formidable Odds Against robots that are indistinguishable from humans.

For “The Antiquities,” Humans Are Merely a “Transitional Species,” A “Blip” on History’s Vast Timeline. As the AI-Inventing Whistleblower Puts it: “We’re the dinosaurs, and this is the meteor.”

Barring someone Miraculous Medical Breakthrough, None of US Will Be Around in 2240. Millions of US Will be gone by 2076. Harrison Points an Eerie Portrait of What COULD HAULD IN OUR FUTURE. In doing so, he offers a pre-Emptive hindsight. The past is prologue, and “The antiquities” Makes Both prologue past and future shock resonate.