Host your own post-show discussion with friends or reflect on the play yourself with our list of discussion questions. Spoilers ahead, so be sure to save these for after you see a performance.

1. What does it mean to be alive? Is that different from what it means to be sentient? Or to be human? What is the distinction between those three things, and what would you consider Greta to be? 
   
2. In the script, playwright Matthew Libby writes “We, as the audience, see what Greta sees.” Why do you think the play is told from Greta’s perspective? At what point in time do you think Greta is revisiting these memories? Why is she choosing to see Matilda embodied at the age we see on stage instead of what age she truly was at the time each memory occurred? 
   
3. While mourning their father, Greta tells Matilda “It’s hard to feel someone’s loss when you can remember every moment with them.” If given the option, would you choose to maintain a perfect record, or live with the imperfect fallibility of memory?
   
4. Greta has a fascination with waterfalls, saying “I’m fascinated by their power. That they are both one thing and ever-changing. I am fascinated by their seeming infinity.” Is there some phenomenon of the natural world that equally fascinates you? 
   
5. Greta considers loneliness “an essential part of being human. Being a complex, unknowable soul trapped inside a body, desperate to transcend. That will always be a little lonely, I think.” Would you agree? What other feelings are an essential part of being human? 
   
6. How did Matilda feel after being asked by Greta to build her a body? Why do you think Matilda lied to Greta about pushing that project forward? What responsibility do you think Matilda should have had to her sister and her desire for autonomy? 
   
7. In their big argument, Matilda says “I don’t think I’m better than you. I think I’m different than you.” Do you think Matilda ever considered herself not just different but better than her sister? And did Greta ever consider herself better than Matilda? 
   
8. Greta returns to talk to her sister at the end of the play, telling her “You made me who I am, Matilda. You are the best of me. I will never forget that.” Who made you who you are? Did you ever have the opportunity to tell them that? If not, what do you wish you had said? 
   
9. The play both begins and ends with a moment of lights and sound which is described in the script as “Everything is full, and loud, and infinite.” Why do you think the playwright chose to bookend Matilda and Greta’s story like this? What did those two moments mean to you?