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Seeking the Genesis
Author(s):
Kia Corthron
THE STORY: Six-year-old hyperactive Kite "flies" about the room. His mother, C Ana, is advised by Kite’s teacher to give Kite Ritalin to help him settle down. The teacher also ominously warns that if Kite isn’t treated with drugs at an early age, he could as a teen manifest traits attributable to a "violence" gene; i.e., he could grow up to be like his
gangbanging sixteen-year-old brother, Justin. C Ana’s niece, Cheryl, a college student tutoring Kite and his eight-year-old shy sister, Kandal, agrees with the teacher; Cheryl lost all three of her brothers to street violence and desperately seeks any solution to stop the killing. C Ana refuses the drugs until Kandal’s birthday party is interrupted by gunshots flying through the room. Justin, who’d always kept "work" separate from home, is stunned, walks out. Cheryl takes C Ana to one of her professors, who explains the biological processes resulting from the intake of cerebral drugs and expresses his own enthusiasm regarding this direction in psychiatry. Justin, a math whiz, tries to drop gangbanging for retail but chokes on the too-simple arithmetic test, believing they must all be trick questions. His best friend, Mitch, a bold, playful teen, doublecrosses boss Sac, which makes Justin suspect and leads to Sac’s wounding Justin. Meanwhile, under the influence of Ritalin, Kite loses sleep and weight, becomes dazed and isn’t improving academically. Justin is angry about Kite and confronts his mother; he now finds out that the ulterior motive behind the drug is the long-term prevention of violence--implying Justin is what he is because of some cerebral defect. In a scene in which the swelling tension between C Ana and Justin, C Ana and Cheryl, and Cheryl and Justin regarding Kite’s welfare reaches a screaming climax, Kite enters, claiming that he was "bad" today
because he didn’t takes his pills; he needs his pills to be "good."
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| Genre(s): | Drama
| | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Play | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | Not Available | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 9 | | Male Characters: | 4 | | Female Characters: | 3 | | Androgynous Characters: | 2 | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | FEE: $60 per performance
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