‘A modern morality play. A bitter, savagely funny visionof the cannibalistic future that awaits the human race...’ –OUTLOOKA searing portrayal of a society bereft of moral and spiritualanchors, Manjula Padmanabhan’s fifth play, Harvest, won theOnassis Award for Original Theatrical Drama in 1997, the firstyear in which the prize was awarded. Following its internationalpremiere in Greece in 1999, the play has been performed overthe years by theatre groups, both amateur and professional,around the world.A dark satire, Harvest tells the story of an impoverishedfamily and the Faustian contract they enter into with ashadowy international corporation: fabulous wealth inexchange for the organs of one of its members. As Ginni,the glamorous American woman who hopes to receive theorgans, invades their one-room home via an interactive videodevice the play lays bare the transactional nature of humanrelationships – even the most intimate ones.This edition includes, for the first time, a gender-reversedversion of the play – an experiment by the author that providesstartling insight into the stereotypes and societal constructsingrained deep in the human psyche and, indeed, into how weperceive gender.