The Apiary
by Kate Douglas
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
2nd Stage/Tony Kiser Theater
February 11, 2024
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💉💉 out of 5.

The Apiary just didn’t do it for me.  I am glad that it didn’t take more than 80 minutes  to explore its one note look into science vs. morality.  For me, the play harkened to theme and variation of Little Shop of Horrors – – here, in a laboratory charged with keeping bees alive – bees are found to have a taste for dead humans and if you want to keep the bees alive and multiplying, then you need to supply them with bodies – lots and lots of bodies.  So, just like Little Shop, the task is easy at the start, but soon becomes grizzly and overwhelming at the end.  Worse than overwhelming, it just got predicable.