Airplanes soar overhead and helicopters slice up the sky just above the Georgetown Steam Plant, where Satori Group and theater collective ARTBARN have set We Remain Prepared. After directors Jess K. Smith and Caitlin Sullivan lay out the ground rules for the performance (watch your head/step, if an actor barrels toward you: move), the plant’s big doors open wide.
Inside, humungo Dr. Seuss machinery rises up from rough concrete floors. A blast of warm jazz blows us back to the early 20th century. Narrow staircases and catwalks connect boiler rooms to bathrooms, offices to coal rooms, and Authorized Zones to Unauthorized Zones…
