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'''''Harvest''''' is a futuristic play by [[Manjula Padmanabhan]] about organ-selling in [[India]]. It was first published in 1997 by [[Kali for Women]].<ref>https://drive.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.the-criterion.com/V4/n4/Roshni.pdf</ref> <br />
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The play takes place in a future [[Bombay]] in 2010. Om Prakash, a jobless Indian, agrees to sell unspecified organs through InterPlanta Services, Inc. to a rich person for a small fortune. InterPlanta and the recipients are obsessed with maintaining Om's health and invasively control the lives of Om, his mother Ma, and his wife Jaya in their one-room apartment. The recipient, Ginni, periodically looks in on them via [[Videotelephony|videophone]] and treats them condescendingly. Om's diseased brother Jeetu is taken to give organs instead of Om.<br />
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Harvest won the 1997 [[Onassis Prize]] as the best new international play. The playtext was published by Aurora Metro Books in 2003.<br />
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==Selected Performances==<br />
*[[Macalester College]], St. Paul, Minnesota (February 17–25, 2006) Directed by Evan Darwin Winet<br />
*[[Gettysburg College]], Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 2015. Directed by Susan Russell<br />
*[[Illinois State University]], Normal, IL, April 2017. Directed by David Weber<br />
*[[Ranga Shankara]], Bengaluru, India, May 2018. Directed by Vishnu Narain<br />
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==Reviews==<br />
"... a fascinating, funny, and frightening glimpse of what happens when we commodify human beings. Although it addresses globalization, the play's issues are universal. - [https://www.backstage.com/review/ny-theater/harvest/ Backstage]<br />
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"Savage, swiftian and with humour so black that what little laughter it provokes is painful, Manjula Padmanabhan's award-winning play is really an allegory about relationships." - [https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19980427-book-review-manjula-padmanabhan-harvest-826237-1998-04-27 India Today]<br />
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"Harvest compels from beginning to end, creating a not-so-fanciful futuristic world that's pretty darned scary." - [http://www.nytheatre.com/Content/martin-denton-2006-1-20-harvest New York Theater]<br />
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