
Marjorie Prime
Full Length Play, Drama / 2m, 2f

Marjorie Prime
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Cast Size
2m, 2fDuration
75 MinutesSubgenre
Science FictionTarget Audience
- Adult
Additional Info
Accolades
- 2015 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Reviews
"Jordan Harrisonu2019s elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling dramau2026 keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it...At some point, you realize that itu2019s been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts." - The New York Times
"Jordan Harrison’s elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama… keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it...At some point, you realize that it’s been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts." - The New York Times, Read More
"An elegant study of memory as both escape and prison. In Anne Kauffman’s perfectly chilled yet cozy staging, the human parts of Harrison’s smart, lovely play are built to last." - Time Out New York, Read More
"Jordan Harrison’s play…has all the hallmarks of the best science fiction; it’s clever in conceit, alive with humor, surprising in its turns, and terribly haunting by the time the lights go out." - The New Yorker, Read More
"Marjorie Prime…is primarily concerned with something eternal: the way our humanity is shaped and warped by the mysterious ebbs and flows of memory." - Los Angeles Times, Read More
"Memory is an essential element of life – crucial 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 death – with memory functioning as connective tissue – that animates Jordan Harrison’s subtly shattering play, Marjorie Prime." - Chicago Sun-Times, Read More
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Considerations
Performing Groups
- Professional Theatre
- Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Cautions
- No Special Cautions
License details
- Minimum Fee: $125 per performance
Production
Details
- Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century, The Future
- Duration: 75 Minutes
- Setting: Tess and Jon's living room.
- Additional Features: No intermission
- Features / Contains: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
Casting
2m, 2fWALTER - early 30s.
TESS - 55. Marjorie's daughter.
JON - 55. Marjorie's son-in-law.
Cast Attributes
- Ensemble cast
- Parts for Senior Actors
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Authors
Marjorie Prime premiered at the Mark Taper Forum/Center Theater Group in Los Angeles in September 2014. The production was directed by Les Waters.
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