{"product_id":"9781559365246","title":"Marjorie Prime (TCG Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eFinalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eNow a major motion picture starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Lois Smith, and Tim Robbins.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An elegant, thoughtful and quietly unsettling drama. \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eMarjorie Prime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eoperates 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ben Brantley, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brilliant…A startling and profound new drama.” —Jesse Green, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eMarjorie Prime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.” —Hedy Weiss, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Rollo Romig, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith help from an intriguingly innovative technology in a future not far from our present, Marjorie examines her past, sometimes replacing her realities with idealized memories. 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, given the power of authorship? Will we be any less human, once computers know us better than we know ourselves?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eJordan Harrison\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up on Bainbridge Island, near Seattle. His plays include \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eMaple and Vine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eThe Grown-Up\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eDoris to Darlene\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eAmazons and Their Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eFinn in the Underworld\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eAct a Lady\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eKid-Simple\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eFutura\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, the Kesselring Prize, and the Horton Foote Prize, among other awards. He was a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist for \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eMarjorie Prime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e. A graduate of the Brown MFA program, Harrison is a writer-producer for the Netflix original series \u003cem\u003e\u003cem style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; background: transparent;\"\u003eOrange is the New Black\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Theatre Communications Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300908155120,"sku":"9781559365246","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781559365246_p0.jpg?v=1763756578","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781559365246","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}