Marjorie Prime: Theater review
Despite the built-in obsession with gadgets, science fiction always orbits back to a familiar subject: human psychology. All those robots, rockets and aliens are just shiny metaphors for our deeper hopes and fears. So Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime, set in a world where androids replace the dead, rebuilding personality by reminiscing with the living, is an intriguing scenario but mainly an elegant study of memory a…