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(curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, The

  • Madeleine George
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 19th Century, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 2M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9780573703010

"Marvelous and filled with marvels. In the Stoppardian world of The Watson Intelligence, Madeleine George's human, dramatic play takes surprising turns."

New York Magazine

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 19th Century, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Finalist! Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2014)
    Winner! John Gassner Award (2014)
    The Kilroys List (2014)
Watson: trusty sidekick to Sherlock Holmes; loyal engineer who built Bell's first telephone; unstoppable super-computer that became reigning Jeopardy! champ; amiable techno-dweeb who, in the present day, is just looking for love.

These four constant companions become one in this brilliantly witty, time-jumping, loving tribute (and cautionary tale) dedicated to the people -- and machines -- upon which we all depend.
REVIEWS:

"Marvelous and filled with marvels. In the Stoppardian world of The Watson Intelligence, Madeleine George's human, dramatic play takes surprising turns."

 New York Magazine

"[Madeleine George] juggles several deep themes with grace, wit and intellectual verve."

 Time Out New York

"Thoughtful and ambitious."

 Entertainment Weekly

Premiere Production: The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence premiered in New York City at Plawrights Horizons in December of 2013, under the direction of Leigh Silverman.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

  • WATSON - 20s to 60s
    MERRICK - 50s
    ELIZA - 30s

  • On February 16, 2011, IBM's natural-language-processing supercomputer, Watson (designed by a team of over twenty programmers and named after Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM), beat the two winningest champions in Jeopardy! history, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, on the third night of a televised Jeopardy! tournament.

  • On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell placed the first telephone call to his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, in a nearby room over roughly twenty feet of cable. The famous words of this first communication by wire ("Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you!") were remembered by Watson himself in an interview some 50 years later as "Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want you."

  • Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective who solved mysteries using his signature form of rational deductive analysis and the help of his friend and chronicler Dr. John H. Watson in London from 1887 to 1914. He was killed twice by his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, once in 1891, by a fatal fall off a cliff into Reichenbach Falls, and again in 1930, by the death of the creator himself.

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    Watson: trusty sidekick to Sherlock Holmes; loyal engineer who built Bell's first telephone; unstoppable super-computer that became reigning Jeopardy! champ; amiable techno-dweeb who, in the present day, is just looking for love.

    These four constant companions become one in this brilliantly witty, time-jumping, loving tribute (and cautionary tale) dedicated to the people -- and machines -- upon which we all depend.

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