by Lauren Gunderson
In a near-future world where technology can resurrect memory, Merril has found an impossible way to hold on to her sister. Secretly developing an A.I. version of Angie after her death, Merril retreats into a carefully controlled reality where grief can be managed and loss can be rewritten. But when virtual Angie begins pushing beyond the boundaries Merril created for her, long-buried truths surface and the lines between human connection, artificial consciousness, and mourning begin to dissolve. Moving, unsettling, and deeply timely, this provocative new play asks how far we are willing to go to keep the people we love from disappearing.