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'Gothic drama meets a dystopian thriller with jaw-dropping twists ... as wise as it is addictive' - Maria Semple, NY Times Bestselling author of Go Gentle and Where’d You Go, Bernadette You aren't a real person until you have a secret ...Growing up in the Squares, Dre Archer was always told human history was over. Until the day she is plucked from all she knows, and recruited as governess to an enigmatic five-year-old boy. Albie is rash, emotionally obtuse, and possibly a genius. He also believes the year is 1884—two centuries before Dre was born. Everyone working at his family’s grand Victorian manor strives to maintain the illusion, keeping the modern world safely outside their doors. Dre is expected to follow along and not ask questions.At first, Dre works hard to embody her role as ‘Miss Archer’, with comportment lessons and corsets. But somewhere along the way, the performance begins to feel real—as does her bond with this singular boy. Slowly she is overwhelmed by questions: Why the weird adherence to the 19th century, when it’s the dawn of the 22nd? Why has she never met Albie’s elusive parents? Who are her shadowy employers? And what is her job, really?In her mounting determination to unlock these mysteries, Dre finds herself flouting the draconian rules of the house. As a series of Russian doll-like revelations brings her closer to the truth, Dre must go to dangerous lengths to protect her young charge, who she has, without quite meaning to, come to love as her own.Miss Archer is an audaciously original and propulsive debut that deftly explores our yearning for the analogue world as we tumble into the future, and asks what it truly means to be human.

Dramatic Comedy CharacterS: 2 male, 2 female Multiple Sets Katha and Ryu have become allergic to their 21st-century lives. After they meet a charismatic man from a community of 1950s re-enactors, they forsake cell phones and sushi for cigarettes and Tupperware parties. In this compulsively authentic world, Katha and Ryu are surprised by what their new neighbors - and they themselves - are willing to sacrifice for happiness. "Piquantly funny, cleverly executed and darkly playful." - The New York Times "Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine does everything a good play should do. It entertains. It makes you think...1950's conformity may not differ much from 2011's, but at least we have our conveniences. Harrison makes you weigh the costs and benefits of both eras without hitting you over the head with his own conclusion. You will enjoy reaching your own." - Theatre Louisville

Winner! 2011 Barrymore Awards Best Production of a Musical and Best Leading Actor in a MusicalOfficial Selection! The Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices FestivalA young professor loses just about everything in the world - everything that is except for the flea who lives in his vest. Starting over again the professor and the flea become the best of friends start a circus act and set off to tour the world. Together they must overcome shipwrecks cannibals a

2015 Pulitzer Prize FinalistIt's the age of artificial intelligence and eighty-five-year-old Marjorie - a jumble of disparate fading memories - has a handsome new companion who's programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember and what would we forget if given the chance? In this richly spare wondrous new play Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits - if any - of what technolog

Ten-year-old Kai is given a magical crystal doorknob by his grandfather that enables him to travel through space and time to see future events in his life. The further along he goes the less he feels like he's seeing into his future but more that he is living life as most people do; all too quickly. Both poignantly sad and zany Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison expands on the notion that life is too short to miss any moment of it.

An intrepid troupe of pageant players races across medieval Europe struggling to outrun the Black Death. The arrival of a mysterious outsider sends Hollis the leading lady in search of answers that can only be found off-script... and soon the 14th century plague begins to look like another more recent one. This wildly inventive and funny new work examines the evolution of human creativity in a dark age: when does a crisis destroy us and when does it open new frontiers?

It's a faraway age of hope and inclusivity; in other words it's 2015. When a tight-knit circle of married gays and lesbians comfy in the new mainstream see themselves through the eyes of their rakish transgender pal it's clear that the march toward progress is anything but unified. With stinging satire and acute compassion Jordan Harrison's pointed comedy charts the breakdown of empathy that happens when we think our rights are secure revealing conservative hearts where you'd least expect.

At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? What did they wear, what did they eat, how did they die out? By casting us into the far future, Jordan Harrison's new play gives us an uncanny view of the present moment, as we straddle the analog world that was and the post-human world to come.