NEW YORK—For many people, the opportunity to rummage through an unknown attic, basement, or collection of bric-a-brac is irresistible. Performance artist Geoff Sobelle uses that idea as the starting point of his fascinating and totally immersive piece “The Object Lesson,” now at the New York Theatre Workshop.
For the occasion, the theater’s entire playing area has been transformed into a cross between a hoarder’s home, a second-rate antique shop, and an estate sale with semi-organized clutter.
Among the visible objects are a traffic light, a canoe, a telephone book, a gigantic green plush snake, and lamps in all shapes and sizes. There are dozens upon dozens of boxes with such scribblings on them as “Dad’s stuff,” “stuff I don’t know what to do with,” and “stuff I may have use for someday.”
