←Recommendations of Repossessed

I listened to this fascinating and thought-provoking play on the Parsnip Ship. I’m extremely intrigued by the world that Greg Lam has so carefully and cleverly constructed here. I also love the ethical questions and quandaries that Lam proposes with this play: Can science go too far in its attempts to improve humanity? Or are we humans responsible by turning to science to erase our flaws? Check this one out!

Brilliant theatrical sci-fi! Good science fiction takes the issues of the society from which it's born and refracts them back with a fantastical lens, and "Repossessed" does just that. The memory and persona altering technology employed in this play provides an elegant, straightforward, and yet complex metaphor for the ways we change ourselves to appease partners and friends, the ways we change and adapt as adults to further our own goals, and the tensions and interactions between those two tendencies. All of the characters are vividly rendered and Gretchen's journey, particularly, is compelling and surprising start to finish.

'Repossessed' is a mind-bending, fast-moving, and fascinating take on what it means to love a person, including ourselves. A fun and intriguing read from beginning to end.

I was lucky enough to watch this play develop in our writing group and then see it in a live reading in Dorchester, MA. It is a really fun but also thought-provoking play about the ethical questions surrounding technology and intimate relationships.

I just listened to the Parsnip Ship episodes featuring this play (check 'em out) and wow! The world-building is impeccable, the moral dilemmas are intriguing, and the story had me hooked the whole time. Plus, it's high-quality sci-fi with relatively minimal tech requirements. Produce this one, it's a winner!

An extremely well written sci fi thriller that asks hard questions about being human, about love and about expectations. The play hooks you with its fantastic premise and then breaks you as it unravels just to reward you with a great ending. Please read and produce!

Repossessed asks profound questions about ethics and identity and what makes us, us, while adeptly blurring the lines between virtual reality and humanity. Lam weaves a story that is both suspenseful and heartbreaking as married couple Rich and Gretchen reckon with revelations about their relationship in this sci-fi drama.

Like the best science fiction, Repossessed creates a world with an inner consistency and logic and with important things to say about our own—in this case about consciousness, memory, and how much we’re willing to sacrifice to get what we want.
And the concerns of the characters (are experiences/emotional connections meaningful if they are “virtual”?) are compelling and frighteningly contemporary.
The structure of the play is, even as a reader, mesmerizing, moving from scenes to interludes that gives us glimpses below the surface of the characters and back in a fascinating and compelling way. Stunning, rich work.

This play poses a chilling question: Will being human be enough for us anymore? As our lives become increasingly intertwined with the virtual world, it's possible that, eventually, the virtual world will overtake our lives. We may program ourselves into new, more efficient beings. New partly-humans. Stronger, smarter, faster. There have to be repercussions to not being able to love. Right? Was Crystal Shenkmann better off as driftless, non-ambitious Crystal, or is her decision to permanently be Gretchen better? Gretchen has everything Crystal wanted- money, power, prestige. Gretchen is "less" human, less emotional, more computer-brain. Who is the better person?