Marjorie Prime
by Jordan Harrison

Broadway
Marjorie Prime Book Cover
Marjorie Prime Cover

Highlights

75 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer Prize

Finalist: 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Synopsis

It’s the age of artificial intelligence, and 85-year-old Marjorie – a jumble of disparate, fading memories – has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to feed the story of her life back to her.

What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance?

In this richly spare, wondrous new play, Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits – if any – of what technology can replace.

Press Reviews

"An elegant study of memory as both escape and prison.  In Anne Kauffman’s perfectly chilled yet cozy staging, the human parts of Harrison’s smart, lovely play are built to last."

— Time Out New York

"Jordan Harrison’s play… has all the hallmarks of the best science fiction; it’s clever in conceit, alive with humor, surprising in its turns, and terribly haunting by the time the lights go out."

— The New Yorker

"Marjorie Prime… is primarily concerned with something eternal: the way our humanity is shaped and warped by the mysterious ebbs and flows of memory."

— Los Angeles Times

"Jordan Harrison’s elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama… keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it... At some point, you realize that it’s been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts."

— The New York Times

"Memory is an essential element of life – crucial to thought, feeling, progress, identity. But it also comes into play with particular power and meaning after someone who has been loved dies. And it is this tension between life and death – with memory functioning as connective tissue – that animates Jordan Harrison’s subtly shattering play, Marjorie Prime."

— Chicago Sun-Times

Characters

Character
Walter

Early 30s.

Tess

55. Marjorie’s daughter.

Jon

55. Marjorie’s son-in-law.

Marjorie

85.

Videos

Marjorie Prime – Inside the Rehearsal Room on Broadway

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573704888
ISBN-10 0573704880

Marjorie Prime is a play written by Jordan Harrison and published by Samuel French .

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Rating

4.2

18 ratings · 25 reviews

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