The Week on Stage: From Guys and Dolls to Further Than the Furthest Thing

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy This week, the Bridge Theatre transforms into 1920s New York, Anne Reid stars in a Black Mirror-esque drama, and a new play at the Young Vic stages a revival of Scottish playwright Zinnie Harris’s second play. Brooklyn-based playwright Jordan Harrison wrote this lightly dystopian play nine years ago, before Chat GPT’s terrifyingly good AI software was successfully deployed to generate everything from movie posters to sonnets to wedding vows. He’s a “Prime”, or an accurate android facsimile of her late husband, forever aged 30. open image in gallery Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid in ‘Marjorie Prime' This play is set 40 years in the future, but AI could already easily create something with a Prime’s conversational skills now. Alice Saville Full review here Further Than the Furthest Thing – Young Vic ★★★☆☆ Zinnie Harris’s 1999 play follows the inhabitants of a small, remote island who are forced to relocate to England when a natural disaster hits.