In the not too distant future in the time of artificial intelligence, 85-year-old Marjorie, a woman whose memory is fading, is kept company by a handsome, younger version of her husband Walter, programmed to talk with her about her past. What would we choose to remember – or forget – about our life, if given the chance? Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize Finalist Marjorie Prime explores the mystery of human memory and the, perhaps unlimited, promises of technology.
A Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production.
Writer
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Jordan Harrison
playwright
Director
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M. Bevin O’Gara
director
Cast
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Sarah deLima
Marjorie
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Lee Mikeska Gardner*
Tess
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Alejandro Simoes
Walter
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Barlow Adamson*
Jon
Production
- Sara Brown Scenic Designer
- Wen-Ling Liao Lighting Designer
- Penney Pinette Costume Design
- Arshan Gailus Sound Design & Original Music
- Sarah Winters Properties Coordinator
- Dominique D. Burford Stage Manager
- Quang Milligan Assistant Stage Manager
Additional Reading
In Conversation with Marjorie Prime’s Playwright Jordan Harrison
This article is reprinted with permission of Writers Theatre.
Artificial Intelligence: The Loebner Prize, the Turing Test, and the Perpetual Revision of “The Sentence”
This article is reprinted with permission of Writers Theatre.