Bibliograph

Inside the seed, a play by, Jason Patrick Rothery

Type

Label

Inside the seed, a play by, Jason Patrick Rothery

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Inside the seed

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jason Patrick Rothery

Sub title

a play by

Summary

Winner of the 2015 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script, Inside the Seed is a contemporary version of Oedipus Rex reimagined as a darkly comic political thriller. Mirroring controversial real-life scientific and corporate controversies, Inside the Seed concerns a once-brilliant scientist who made a startling discovery: a bio-engineered form of rice that could save an overpopulated world on the brink of catastrophic famine. The play examines how good, smart, well-intentioned individuals are drawn into, and corrupted by, complex institutional systems, be they corporate, military, or governmental

Target audience

adult

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