PLAY REVIEW: Memoriam ★★★
What if our most painful memories could be packaged, edited and sold for entertainment? In Memoriam , playwright Noga Flaishon explores this unsettling prospect through a near-future world in which technology allows people to experience another person’s recollections. It is a compelling premise, particularly when the memories in question belong to Holocaust survivors, but this production proves more successful at raising difficult questions than answering them. When Rachel (Rachel Barry), an employee of the memory-sharing company Memoriam, discovers that her grandmother Rivka (Beverley Klein) is the last living Holocaust survivor in their family, she sees an opportunity to preserve an invaluable piece of history. However, her brother David (Ashley Margolis) questions the morality of turning their grandmother’s suffering into a commercial product. As corporate ambition clashes with family loyalty, the play examines who owns our stories and whether preserving the past can ever just...
