New PDF release: Marjorie Prime (TCG Edition)

By Jordan Harrison

ISBN-10: 1559365242

ISBN-13: 9781559365246

"A thought-provoking play approximately reminiscence, its corruption and our insistence that expertise support us outwit death."—The long island occasions

"It's the type of event that retains unfolding within the brain lengthy after the play is over."—Los Angeles Times

In a destiny no longer faraway from our current, Marjorie spends her time rewriting her previous in desire of her idealized stories, with support from the intriguingly cutting edge know-how that permits her to take action. With deeply felt characters – either genuine and within the type of holograms or "Primes"—Jordan Harrison's commonly acclaimed new play burrows into the main troubling questions of the electronic age: are we exchanging our reminiscence with a fake truth, and what does that suggest in regards to the upkeep of the reality? Marjorie best ultimately asks even if manipulating our previous is a corruption of background or a welcome comfort.

Jordan Harrison's different performs contain Maple and Vine, Doris to Darlene, Amazons and their Men, Act a Lady, Finn within the Underworld, Futura, Kid-Simple, The Museum Play, Standing on Ceremony, Suprema, and Fit for Feet. His kid's musical, The Flea and the Professor, gained the 2011 Barrymore Award for most sensible creation. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton college, a Theater Masters' cutting edge Playwright Award, the Kesselring Prize, the Heideman Award, the Loewe Award for Musical Theater, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships from The Playwrights' heart, and a NEA/TCG Playwright-in-Residence Grant.

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