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Lois Smith and Noah Bean; photo by Jeremy Daniel

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Lisa Emery, Lois Smith, and Noah Bean; photo by Jeremy Daniel

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Lisa Emery and Stephen Root; photo by Jeremy Daniel

Stephen Root, Lois Smith, and Lisa Emery; photo by Jeremy Daniel

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Artwork photography by Matt Hoyle

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Playwright Jordan Harrison; photo by Zack DeZon.

Marjorie Prime


Mainstage Theater


Written by Jordan Harrison
Directed by Anne Kauffman

2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama

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.

Featuring
Noah Bean
Walter
Lois Smith
Marjorie
Creative Team
Laura Jellinek
Scenic Designer
Jessica Pabst
Costume Designer
Ben Stanton
Lighting Designer
Daniel Kluger
Sound Designer
Erin Gioia Albrecht
Production Stage Manager
Reviews
  • “Jordan Harrison’s elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama operates by stealth, landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts. It keeps developing in your head long after you’ve seen it.”

    — Ben Brantley, The New York Times
  • “This startling and profound new drama – a realistic work, and a brilliant one at that – is devastatingly rendered by the superior ensemble under Anne Kauffman’s beautifully balanced direction. See Marjorie Prime now.”

    — Jesse Green, New York magazine