Theater Thursday - The Memory Exam

We were given complimentary tickets to The Memory Exam for review purposes. Any and all opinions expressed here are our own. 

What: The Memory Exam 

Where: 59E59 Theatres 

            59 E. 59 St. 

            New York, NY

Who: Recommended for Ages 12 and Up

When: Through September 25, 2022

After living through a pandemic which forced us all to hole up in our own homes for months, you may think you want to avoid even the hint of anything dystopian in your entertainment. However, Steven Fechter's The Memory Exam is definitely worth seeing. This is show about a world where the minute senior citizens show any signs of memory loss they become expendable, What makeis it even scarier is that during the height of the pandemic, there were actually people that felt this way. There attitude was that it didn't matter if the pandemic was killing off a bunch of older people they were all going to die anyway. 

This show takes that idea to the extreme, but the scary thing is that the way thinks have been going in the world and in this country in particular you don't know what is going to happen next. Do we really want to live in a world where even people are expendable? Hopefully not, and hopefully this show will serve as wakeup call and remind us of what could happen if we take things too far.

And that's our view. Tune in Saturday for Still More Theater Saturday.

Photo credits: 

All The Memory Exam production photos by Carol Rosegg