The Antiquities, Jordan Harrison

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The Antiquities
By Jordan Harrison — Paperback, November 18, 2025

Welcome to the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, where the curators of a far-future world obsessively reconstruct the long-extinct civilization known as “humans.” In their sterile, post-human landscape, they pore over artifacts, costumes, fragments, and theories—trying to answer the questions that haunt them: What were humans really like? What did they value? And how, exactly, did they vanish?

Jordan Harrison’s provocative new play turns our present into their past, transforming everyday objects and habits into mysterious relics and rituals. As the museum’s staff attempts to resurrect the analog era, their reconstructions reveal as much about their own world as the one they’re trying to revive—exposing fractures, assumptions, and existential anxieties beneath their clinical fascination.

Wry, haunting, and sharply observant, The Antiquities offers an unsettling mirror to our moment. By imagining humanity from the vantage point of its disappearance, Harrison gives us a future that is eerily funny, poignantly strange, and impossible to look away from.