In the performance piece 'The Object Lesson' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Geoff Sobelle climbs high and low to explore the compulsion to preserve the flotsam and jetsam of one's life.

“The Object Lesson,” which has toured internationally, runs a little long now and then as Sobelle ponders time and even allows nothing to happen while we watch in the semi-darkness. It’s a ...

Geoff Sobelle calls his new one-man play "a meditation on our relationship to things." On a visit to the show, NPR's Arun Rath gathers a lesson in the meaning of stuff -- and the memories it can bear.