Invasive Species by Natalie Sacks

Imagine a world in which a "super-GMO" designed to solve world hunger—fast-growing, extremely durable, and requiring almost nothing to survive—has gone completely out-of-control, overtaking the Earth and driving the human race almost entirely extinct. Paul and Magdalena are a late-twenties couple living in Bushwick, Brooklyn, who along with their upstairs neighbor Jaz are each fighting to remake the...
Imagine a world in which a "super-GMO" designed to solve world hunger—fast-growing, extremely durable, and requiring almost nothing to survive—has gone completely out-of-control, overtaking the Earth and driving the human race almost entirely extinct. Paul and Magdalena are a late-twenties couple living in Bushwick, Brooklyn, who along with their upstairs neighbor Jaz are each fighting to remake the world as they see best, with very different ideas of what that should look like.
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Invasive Species

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  • Alexander Pine:
    29 Oct. 2019
    “ Invasive Species cleverly utilizes this new world to depict the tangled weeds of modern day domestication. The growing struggle of feeling planted to your partner and your home effortlessly works its way through this fun and witty take on life where the hipster vegans win. ”

Character Information

  • Magdalena
    20s,
    Female
    An ambitious, goal-oriented woman with more than a touch of self-delusion, her response to the near-end of the human race is to form a committee to institute a form of local self-governance and rebuild the world into the sort of society she believes it always should have been. And she’s not going to let anyone stand in her way.
    Can be played by:
    • Age: 
      20s, 30s
    • Race/Ethnicity: 
      Any race/ethnicity
    • Gender: 
      Female
  • Paul
    20s,
    Male
    Usually happy to let his girlfriend Magdalena take control of their plans for the future, he has been struggling to find a purpose in this dangerous new world he cannot protect her from, and wishes more than anything that he could go back to the way things were before.
    Can be played by:
    • Age: 
      20s
    • Race/Ethnicity: 
      Any race/ethnicity
    • Gender: 
      Male
  • Jaz
    20s-30s,
    Female
    The sort of girl who had an expensive liberal arts education on her parents’ dime, then gave it all up to find enlightenment as a yogini, she is uniquely prepared for a post-apocalyptic world that requires humankind to rethink its relationship with nature.
    Can be played by:
    • Age: 
      20s, 30s
    • Race/Ethnicity: 
      White
    • Gender: 
      Female

Development History

  • Reading
    ,
    Benchmark Theatre
    ,
    2019
  • Reading
    ,
    Turn To Flesh Productions
    ,
    2018