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MUSEUM 2040 by Renee Calarco

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  • Ian Thal:
    6 Mar. 2020
    “ In “Museum 2040” Calarco explores just one possible way the divides in American society could rupture in a speculative history that imagines developments in both American politics and pop-culture over the next twenty years while reminding us just how bizarre the events of the last twenty years have been. The immersive nature of the event makes us consider that we do not always understand the significance of present as we live through it, but also how significance is subject to debate or irreconcilable differences. The recent past can be an open wound — and so is the future. ”
  • Paul Donnelly:
    15 Feb. 2019
    “ Equal parts engrossing and unsettling (in the best possible way), this play offers a deliberately incomplete portrait of a single day of national horror and all the dreadful days that followed. It is mercifully non prescriptive and the richer for the gaps and inconsistencies that the viewer must try to fill and decipher. It even manages the feat of humanizing a bigot without justifying or rationalizing her bigotry. All in all a surprisingly complex, nearly sprawling work presented in a spare, tight frame. ”
  • Tristan B Willis:
    5 Jul. 2018
    “ Our National Museum... asks what truths are uncovered and deliberately hidden or softened in the curation of our national stories in museums. Like many of America's history, the instigating massacre that inspires this museum is born of our nation itself, a self-caused problem reflective of the many times America has harmed itself on its path to destroy others. The dog display (and uncomfortable call out) is perfect, as is setting the play in an immersive museum/environment. Calarco also explores an eerie example of how, especially for the marginalized, aligning ourselves with people in power will not protect us. ”
  • Jordan Elizabeth Henry:
    24 Apr. 2018
    “ Utterly chilling, disarming, horrifying, and deeply important to this moment in our country's history: Renee Calarco has put a spotlight on what we are becoming as walls grow ever higher. Participating in this immersive experience would be actually life-changing in a way very few things are. I expect to see productions of this popping up everywhere in the coming years. ”
  • Tira Palmquist:
    3 Apr. 2018
    “ This piece is chilling, funny, smart, terrifying -- in short, an unflinchingly accurate portrait of who we are right now, or who we could become, as a nation. One thing (of the many things) that Renee does so well is to quickly and deftly create clear and specific characters, sometimes in just a line or two. Her facility with language and gesture is enthralling. Someone please do this piece, and soon. ”