Genesis Inc.
Genesis Inc.
Jemma Kennedy
Serena and Jeff have one last chance to conceive: Genesis Incorporated, whose glowing testimonials and bespoke treatments surely justify a final roll of the dice.
Meanwhile, Bridget has put it all on ice while she focuses on her high-flying career and on finding Mr Right. And all Miles wants is to be able to afford a property in Zone 4—oblivious to the fact that, in a different kind of currency, he’s actually the richest of them all…
Genesis Inc. explores the final frontier of twenty-first-century capitalism: the privatisation of human reproduction.
Jemma Kennedy’s explosively funny new comedy takes a closer look at the lengths to which people will go to defy biology – and at the moral compass of an industry that trades on fear and hope. It premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2018, in a production directed by Laurie Sansom.
Available
2018
English
978-1-84842-768-6
Drama
Nick Hern Books
Jemma Kennedy is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Her first novel, SKYWALKING was published in 2003, and she has been writing for the stage since 2004. She was awarded a Jerwood Arvon Young Playwrights Apprenticeship in 2006 and was Pearson playwright in residence at the National Theatre in 2010.
Recent plays include: MAGGOT MOON (Unicorn Theatre); GENESIS INC. (Hampstead Theatre); THE GRAND IRRATIONALITY (Lost Theatre Studio, Los Angeles); and SECOND PERSON NARRATIVE for Tonic Theatre’s inaugural Platform play series. She is currently writing her first stage musical ELECTRIC LADIES for Universal Music.
Jemma is an accomplished adaptor for the screen. Jemma’s first feature film, CAPTAIN WEBB, was released in 2015. Jemma is currently adapting Iris Murdoch’s THE SEA THE SEA for cinema and Edith Wharton’s THE BUCCANEERS for Carnival Films/Monumental Pictures, along with Tom Bradby’s thriller SECRET SERVICE for Potboiler Productions/ITV.