Marjorie Prime

Run dates: August 14-17 & 21-24, 2025

Directed by Jennifer Kingry

In the not-too-distant future with artificial intelligence deeply embedded in our daily lives, 85-year-old Marjorie struggles with disparate, fading memories. That is, until the appearance of Walter, a mysterious and charming young visitor programmed to help Marjorie recall her past. Jordan Harrison’s 2015 Pulitzer Prize Finalist play burrows into thoughtful questions of the digital age: what would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance to re-write our own stories? Will we be any less human, once computers know us better than we know ourselves? This wondrous, touching, and clever play explores the mysteries of human identity, collective family memory, and the limits – if any – of what technology can replace.    

Suggested for PG-14, with mature themes involving aging, grief and self-harm.  

"Jordan Harrison's elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling play… keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it. — The New York Times

" …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

"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

Marjorie – Jalayne Riewerts 

Tess – Lorrie Lord

Jon – Kevin Babbit

Walter Prime – Eric Friedman

Director– Jennifer Kingry

Stage Manager – Cali Van Zandt

Set Builders – Jim Skiles, Mike Skiles

Light & Sound Design – Jennifer Kingry