In The Barbarians playwright Jerry Lieblich dismantles language, then reassembles it, planting tripwires between the syllables.

Time and water are slippery things—you can’t hold on to either for long, and when you run out you die. Artists often draw on water as a wellspring for metaphor (Paul Simon said “time is an ocean,” to which Bob Dylan agreed “and it ends at the shore”), but ANYWHERE, Théâtre l’Entrouvert’s stirring puppet-show, makes time tangible by melting it. 

Playwrights Horizon stages The Antiquities by Jordan Harrison.