Schrodinger’s Catfish is billed as a “mind-bending exploration of love in the age of the never-ending Turing test.” Credit: Courtesy Image / Overtime Theater

Brainy concepts with a wacky bent have long been center stage at the Overtime Theater, and playwright Lemuel Mitchell’s Schrodinger’s Catfish is no exception.

For starters, the name of the play — which will run May 17-25 at the Overtime — references physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s pivotal “thought experiment” that placed an imaginary cat in a closed box with a flask of poison and a radioactive source connected to a geiger counter.

First discussed with Albert Einstein in 1935, the concept illustrated one of the key principals of quantum mechanics: that unlike the unseen feline — which was either dead or alive inside the box — particles in the microscopic realm can exist in multiple states at once.

With a broad nod to deceptive characters that troll the internet, Schrodinger’s Catfish wryly questions reality through three eventually converging narratives following two avatars on a first date, a pair of morally challenged developers at a tech startup behind a new dating app, and a young couple grappling with real-life romance and the allure of the virtual world.

Dave Stone-Robb directs a cast of six — not to mention an inanimate character dubbed The Toaster — in what’s billed as a “mind-bending exploration of love in the age of the never-ending Turing test.”

$12-$18, May 17-25, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday, Gregg Barrios Theater at the Overtime, 540 Bandera Road #205, (210) 557-7562, theovertimetheater.org.

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This article appears in May 1-14, 2024.