The Genesis Plays. Five Cities. Three Years. One Book.
The Genesis Plays, inspired by five unique narratives in the book of Genesis, were devised between 2015-2017 in Minneapolis, Charleston, Austin, Seattle and Kansas City.The In[heir]itance Project is a theater company that uses a community-driven process of devising, education, and conversation to create original performance events inspired by sacred stories in conversation with a community’s own history, narratives, and people.
THE ABRAHAM PLAY (Minneapolis/St Paul)
Hoping for a quick windfall of inheritance, Abe, a Wall Street stock jock, returns to the office of his recently deceased, estranged father searching for a lost deed
THE REBECCA PLAY (Charleston)
The matriarch Rebecca played favorites among her sons, Esau and Jacob, believing one to be the rightful heir
THE JACOB PLAY (Austin)
A play that, quite literally, asks Jacob to wrestle with his role as brother, husband, and man of God.
THE LEAH/RACHEL PLAY (Seattle)
A historian unearths an ancient papyrus about sisterhood and struggles with what it means for a man to have made this discovery that reveals so much about female identity.
THE SARAH PLAY (Kansas City)
Three actors struggle with how to tell the ancient, sacred story of Sarah and Hagar, the mothers of Isaac and Ishmael, through a modern lens
