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Two Queens (and Some Dancing): The Apiary
Virtuosic performances in a play that can’t quite get airborne.
Pilar—a tender soul who dutifully monitors the hives under the loudly stressed-out supervision of lab manager Gwen (Taylor Schilling, formerly of Orange Is the New Black)—calls what she and her colleagues are doing “palliative care.” She isn’t gloomy, though. For all the biochemical tchotchkes of Walt Spangler’s big-statement set—center stage is encased in a floor-to-ceiling column of fine netting, inside which most of the play’s action occurs—Douglas isn’t primarily concerned with the nitty-gritty of restorative apiculture. At the same time, Christopher Darbassie’s sound design and Grace McLean’s original music punctuate the show with intense, strangely upbeat, almost techno-poppy transitions, amped up even more by Amith Chandrashaker’s supersaturated discothèque lights.
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