Marjorie Prime

Currently at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, *Marjorie Prime* brings Jordan Harrison’s spare, speculative drama into a musical frame. The story follows an elderly woman and the “primes” that help her rehearse memory and grief, as a family argues over what should be preserved and what can be edited away. First known in New York through its acclaimed Off-Broadway run, the work sits in the city’s longer tradition of stage writing about technology and intimacy. Its clearest insight is that nostalgia can be engineered, but consequences cannot.