Inside the seed: a play by
(2016)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Talonbooks : Made available through hoopla, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780889229877 (electronic bk.) MWT11861302, 0889229872 (electronic bk.) 11861302
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
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