Marjorie Prime (TCG Edition)

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Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Nowa major motion picture starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith, and Tim Robbins.

An elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama.Marjorie Primeoperates by stealth at some point, you realize that its been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts It keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it.

Ben Brantley,New York Times

BrilliantA startling and profound new drama. Jesse Green,New York

Memory is an essential element of lifecrucial 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 deathwith memory functioning as connective tissuethat animates Jordan Harrisons subtly shattering,Marjorie Prime. Hedy Weiss,Chicago Sun-Times

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

Rollo Romig,New Yorker

With help from an intriguingly innovative technology in a future not far from our present, Marjorie examines her past, sometimes replacing her realities with idealized memories. Through deeply drawn charactersboth real and in the form of artificial intelligence companions, or Primes Harrison burrows into troubling questions of the digital age: What would we remember, and what would we forget, given the power of authorship Will we be any less human, once computers know us better than we know ourselves

Jordan Harrisongrew up on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. His plays includeMaple and Vine,The Grown-Up,Doris to Darlene,Amazons and Their Men,Finn in the Underworld,Act a Lady,Kid-Simple, andFutura. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize, and the Horton Foote Prize, among other awards. He was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist forMarjorie Prime. A graduate of the Brown MFA program, Harrison is a writer-producer for the Netflix original seriesOrange is the New Black.

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An elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama. Marjorie Prime operates by stealthat some point, you realize that its been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts It keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it. Ben Brantley, New York Times Memory is an essential element of lifecrucial 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 deathwith memory functioning as connective tissuethat animates Jordan Harrisons subtly shattering play, Marjorie Prime. Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times Jordan Harrisons play has all the hallmarks of the best science fiction; its clever in conceit, alive with humor, surprising in its turns, and terribly haunting by the time the lights go out. Rollo Romig, New Yorker
An elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama. Marjorie Prime operates by stealthat some point, you realize that its been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts It keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it. Ben Brantley, New York Times Memory is an essential element of lifecrucial 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 deathwith memory functioning as connective tissuethat animates Jordan Harrisons subtly shattering play, Marjorie Prime. Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times Jordan Harrisons play has all the hallmarks of the best science fiction; its clever in conceit, alive with humor, surprising in its turns, and terribly haunting by the time the lights go out. Rollo Romig, New Yorker

Author Bio

Jordan Harrison grew up on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. His plays include Maple and Vine, The Grown-Up, Doris to Darlene, Amazons and Their Men, Finn in the Underworld, Act a Lady, Kid-Simple and Futura. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize, and the Horton Foote Prize, among other awards. He was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marjorie Prime. A graduate of the Brown MFA program, Harrison is a writer-producer for the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black.