Harvest
| Title | Harvest |
| Year for Search | 1998 |
| Authors | Padmanabhan, Manjula(b. 1953) |
| Date Published | 1998 |
| Publisher | Kali for Women |
| Place Published | Delhi, India |
| Keywords | Female author, Indian author |
| Annotation | Dystopian play focusing on the sale of body parts by the poor to the rich. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Black and Asian Plays (London: Aurora Metro Books/The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, 2000), 10-89. A standalone version of the play with unauthorized cuts was published by the same publisher in 2003. Rev. in Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology. Ed. Helen Gilbert (London: Routledge, 2011), 217-249, with an editor’s “Introduction” (214-216). Rev & exp. ed. Gurgram, India: Hachette India, 2017 with a new introduction by the author (unpaged); and Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Ed. W[illiam] B. Worthen. 6th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011), 1727-1755. |
| Info Notes | The play won the 1997 Onassis Prize for Theatre and is © 1997. First performed in 1999 directed by Joy Michael and the Yatrik theatre troupe. Performed in Greek in the Karolus Koun Theatre in Athens January 20, 2000. The author discusses additional performances in 2017 introduction. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Indian female author (b. 1953) living in the United States |
| Full Text | 1998 Padmanabhan, Manjula (b. 1953). Harvest. Delhi, India: Kali for Women. Rpt. in Black and Asian Plays (London: Aurora Metro Books/The Peggy Ramsay Foundation, 2000), 10-89. A standalone version of the play with unauthorized cuts was published by the same publisher in 2003. Rev. in Postcolonial Plays: An Anthology. Ed. Helen Gilbert (London: Routledge, 2011), 217-249, with an editor’s “Introduction” (214-216). Rev & exp. ed. Gurgram, India: Hachette India, 2017 with a new introduction by the author (unpaged); and Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Ed. W[illiam] B. Worthen. 6th ed. (Boston, MA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011), 1727-1755. The play won the 1997 Onassis Prize for Theatre and is © 1997. First performed in 1999 directed by Joy Michael and the Yatrik theatre troupe. Performed in Greek in the Karolus Koun Theatre in Athens January 20, 2000. The author discusses additional performances in 2017 introduction. NLS, PSt Dystopian play focusing on the sale of body parts by the poor to the rich. Indian female author living in the United States. |
