Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime
Jordan Harrison
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. “Marjorie Prime” premiered at the Mark Taper Forum/Center Theater Group in Los Angeles in September 2014. The production was directed by Les Waters.
Available
2014
978-0-573-70488-8
Drama
Samuel French
Jordan Harrison
Jordan Harrison was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Marjorie Prime. Other plays include “The Grown-Up” (Humana Festival), “Doris to Darlene”, “A Cautionary Valentine” (Playwrights Horizons), “Amazons and their Men” (Clubbed Thumb), “Act A Lady” (Humana Festival), “Finn in the Underworld” (Berkeley Rep), “Futura” (Portland Center Stage/NAATCO), “Kid-Simple” (Humana Festival), “The Museum Play” (WET), and a musical, “Suprema” (O’Neill Music Theatre Conference). Jordan has two new plays premiering Off-Broadway in the ’17-’18 season: “The Amateurs” at the Vineyard Theatre, and “Log Cabin” at Playwrights Horizons.
Jordan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Horton Foote Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the Roe Green Award from Cleveland Play House, the Heideman Award, a Theater Masters Innovative Playwright Award, the Loewe Award for Musical Theater, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships, a NYSCA grant, and a NEA/TCG Residency with The Empty Space Theater. His children’s musical, The Flea and the Professor, won the Barrymore Award for Best Production after premiering at the Arden Theatre. A graduate of Stanford University and the Brown MFA program, Jordan is an alumnus of New Dramatists. For three seasons, he was a writer and producer for the Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black.”