The (Curious Case Of The) Watson Intelligence
by Madeleine George

Name: The (Curious Case Of The) Watson Intelligence
Brand: Madeleine George
SKU: 9780573703010
Rating: 3.55 (164 reviews)

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Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 mins Present Day Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Historical Mystery

Awards & Recognition

Pulitzer Prize

Finalist: 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 2014 John Gassner Award Selection: 2014 Kilroys List

Synopsis

FINALIST!

Pulitzer Prize for Drama - 2014 Watson: trusty sidekick to Sherlock Holmes; loyal engineer who built Bell's first telephone; unstoppable super-computer that became reigning Jeopardy!

ch& amiable techno-dweeb who, in the present day, is just looking for love.

These four constant companions become one in this brilliantly witty, time-jumping, loving tribute (and cautionary tale) dedicated to the people-and machines-upon which we all depend.

Press Reviews

"Thoughtful and ambitious."
— Entertainment Weekly

"Marvelous and filled with marvels. In the Stoppardian world of The Watson Intelligence, Madeleine George's human, dramatic play takes surprising turns."
— New York Magazine

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Merrick 50s	—	50s	50s
Eliza 30s On February 16, 2011, IBM’s natural-language-processing supercomputer, Watson (designed by a team of over 20 programmers and named after Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM), beat the two winningest champions in Jeopardy! history, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, on the third night of a televised Jeopardy! tournament.On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell placed the first telephone call to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, in a nearby room over roughly 20 feet of cable. The famous words of this first communication by wire (“Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you!”) were remembered by Watson himself in an interview some 50 years later as “Mr. Watson – come here – I want you.”Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective who solved mysteries using his signature form of rational deductive analysis and the help of his friend and chronicler Dr. John H. Watson in London from 1887 to 1914. He was killed twice by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, once in 1891, by a fatal fall off a cliff into Reichenbach Falls, and again in 1930, by the death of the creator himself.	male	87-19	30s On February 16, 2011, IBM’s natural-language-processing supercomputer, Watson (designed by a team of over 20 programmers and named after Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM), beat the two winningest champions in Jeopardy! history, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, on the third night of a televised Jeopardy! tournament.On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell placed the first telephone call to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, in a nearby room over roughly 20 feet of cable. The famous words of this first communication by wire (“Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you!”) were remembered by Watson himself in an interview some 50 years later as “Mr. Watson – come here – I want you.”Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective who solved mysteries using his signature form of rational deductive analysis and the help of his friend and chronicler Dr. John H. Watson in London from 1887 to 1914. He was killed twice by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, once in 1891, by a fatal fall off a cliff into Reichenbach Falls, and again in 1930, by the death of the creator himself.
Watson 20s to 60s	—	20s	20s to 60s