"While It's Not About the Experience of Being Quarantined Per Se, It Taps into a Kind of Universal Experience": Director Matt Wolf on His Moving Saga of Human Ambition, Spaceship Earth

"Theater engages the whole organism," says Biosphere 2 Director of Systems Engineering William Dempster. "Movement, through emotion -- [it] gives you insight into yourself. Building a foundation from which we could go on and do other projects." Accompanying Dempster's voiceover early in Matt Wolf's engrossing and unexpectedly stirring documentary, Spaceship Earth, is black-and-white footage from the first public activity of John Allen's band of “Synergists”: a traveling theater production ca...