When it comes to hoarding, the Collyer brothers have nothing on Geoff Sobelle, who has created a performance piece on the compulsion to preserve the flotsam and jetsam of the past.
To this end, the Kirk Douglas Theatre, where "The Object Lesson" can be seen through Oct. 4, has been transformed into the warehouse of one man's life. Everywhere you look, there are cartons crammed with old junk — tangled telephone sets, a tarnished teakettle, assorted balls, unprepossessing paperbacks, even a collection of clothes found on the street.
On a back wall, a library card catalog houses drawers of miscellany.