Dead Letter Office: a prelude to Bartleby the Scrivener

In Matthew Earnest's exuberant prequel to Melville's iconic story, three anonymous figures re-route undeliverable mail and inadvertently discover, to their horror, that the Enlightenment ended more than a century ago. A rococo vaudeville show that both celebrates and sighs for the bygone age of Humanism, a joyous elegy for the fading art of the written word.