The Humans

In this ensemble showcase, there’s a familiar but still potent vision of family as comfort and burden at once.

Cinematographer Lol Crawley (The OA) intersperses it all with artful close-ups of empty doorways and elevator shafts, a cacophony of haunted violins by famed contemporary composer Nico Muhly keeping score.

It’s a gripping, appropriately stifling experience, and the feelings — the fear, the disappointment, the unhappiness — hit home.

Very real issues are suffused with an oppressive, unearthly, compelling unreality.

Some may insist that the story lacks cogency offstage, but it’s those frenetic, intimate and often senseless moments that justify its title.