Review: A play making its world premiere in Costa Mesa is ambitious but unwieldy

Some of the tender moments and animated staging in South Coast Repertory’s world premiere staging of “You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!” are enough to remind how good it is to find the doors open to live performance again on the theater’s mainstage.
Until now, SCR’s primary Segerstrom Stage has been open this calendar year for only a dozen performances of a show organized through an outsider presenter.
Having formally downsized productions from 13 t