Toronto 
Events Description
Marjorie’s new companion is trying to keep her memories, emotions and identity clear and orderly. Can AI help?
About the play. . . .
What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance? A speculative tale set in the near future, the play centers on 85-year-old Marjorie. As her personal memories blend and fade, she meets a new companion who helps her reassemble her life’s moments, both big and small. Marjorie Prime considers the extent to which human identity will be aided or replaced by technology.
Through deeply drawn characters—both real and in the form of artificial intelligence companions, or “Primes”—Harrison burrows into troubling questions of the digital age: What would we remember, and what would we forget? Will we be any less human, once computers know us better than ourselves?
The play was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a film adaptation of it premiered in the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
“An elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama. Marjorie Prime operates by stealth… at some point, you realize that it’s been landing skillfully targeted punch after punch, right where it hurts… It keeps developing in your head, like a photographic negative, long after you have seen it.” ~ Ben Brantley, New York Times
by Jordan Harrison
Director: Maureen Lukie
Producer: Bill Hammond
Who is it for?
All ages
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $26.00 – $29.00
Regular: $29.00
Students/Under 30: $26.00
Seniors: $26.00 (Weds, Thurs, Sunday matinees)
Group of 10 or more: $26.00
How to get tickets?
Phone: 416-767-7702
Email: info@villageplayers.net
WHEN & WHERE
Date: Friday March 1, 2024 to Saturday March 23, 2024
Fri, Mar 1st, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Mar 2nd, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Wed, Mar 6th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Thu, Mar 7th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Fri, Mar 8th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Mar 9th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sun, Mar 10th, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Thu, Mar 14th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Fri, Mar 15th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Mar 16th, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sun, Mar 17th, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Thu, Mar 21st, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Fri, Mar 22nd, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Sat, Mar 23rd, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Venue & Address
VILLAGE PLAYHOUSE, 2190E Bloor Street West, Toronto, M6S 1N3 (just east of Runnymede subway)
Wheelchair accessible
