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The essentials: The psychological legacy of the World War I-era Armenian genocide that killed 1.5 million people takes haunting shape in the world premiere of Leslie Ayvazian’s darkly comic play. It’s about an Armenian American (played by Rogue Machine Theatre Artistic Director John Perrin Flynn) still plagued by nightmares of the atrocities he witnessed as a child. Confined to a psych ward after a suicide attempt, he hovers between hallucination and reality, tilting at phantoms like a latter-day Don Quixote in a quest for validating acknowledgement of the genocide still denied by the Turkish government. Diplomatic hair-splitting notwithstanding, history, like water, will seek its own level of truth.

Why this? The production sports some impressive pedigrees. Ayvazian (who costars in this production) has been a well-established chronicler of the Armenian American experience since her 1995 play “Nine Americans.” Flynn was a founding member of the 99-seat theater scene in 1980s and remains a tireless crusader for artistic freedom. Director Michael Arabian helmed 2012’s acclaimed “Waiting for Godot” at the Mark Taper Forum.

Details: A Rogue Machine production at the Met Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Ave., Los Angeles. 8:30 p.m. Saturdays and Mondays, 3 p.m. Sundays (dark June 25); ends July 16. $40. (855585-5185), www.roguemachinetheatre.net