The collapse of bee colonies provides a backdrop for The Apiary

A comedy about the near-future where flora and fauna are dying off is a gamble, but Kate Douglas’s The Apiary is a successful one. Clark Week Productions’ staging, directed by Anna Klos, has a honey-sweet and offbeat charm that doesn’t lose sight of the stakes set by Douglas. The ApiaryThrough 11/22: Thu–Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM; Bramble Arts Loft, 5545 N. Clark, brambleartsloft.com, $32.48-$37.73 Set 22 years in the future, The Apiary follows Zora, a PhD in biochemistry who takes a job overseeing a lab’s efforts to restore the bee population. Details of the cataclysm outside the lab walls are sparse, but we know that the world is in rough shape. Kate Yee plays Zora as a sort of relaxed genius, info dumping freely and quite aware of her prowess, but not lording it over her colleagues. Zora knows a lot about bees and cares even more.

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