
The Apiary (2024, off-Broadway) final copies
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Kate Douglas’s deeply imaginative, beautifully poetic off-Broadway drama 'The Apiary' arrived at the Second Stage Theatre’s Tony Kiser Theatre in 2024 as a critically lauded highlight of the contemporary theatrical season. Set in a sterile, quietly dystopian near-future where the global bee population has been completely pushed to the brink of extinction, the narrative unfolds inside a synthetic, highly controlled laboratory sanctuary where two eccentric research scientists explore a radical, ethically complex experiment: training bees to coexist and thrive inside the physical bodies of human volunteers. Directed with precise atmospheric tension by Rebecca Frecknall, the production starred Taylor Schilling, Carmen M. Herlihy, and April Matthis.

