A committee of concerned citizens brainstorm strategies to get rid of a gigantic boulder
that has mysteriously appeared in their town. A scientist suddenly becomes too
overwhelmed with the inadequacy of language to talk geology. A woman can’t get out of
bed due to distress over the world’s exceedingly grim state of affairs — also, there’s
a gigantic, invisible boulder on her chest. And, the mythic hero Sisyphus has to roll a
boulder up a mountain only to watch it roll back down over and over and over and over again. Through a
series of connected, enigmatic vignettes riffing on the myth of Sisyphus, The Sisyphi asks: when faced
with your own futility and the unceasing meaningless of the universe, why bother?