A scene from a play and interview with Ella Road, the author of “The Phlebotomist”
THE “SUBS” are, in effect, subhumans—people with a genetic rating at the low end of a 10-point scale. People tend to date others within their rate bracket. “Dealers” trade blood stolen from people with high ratings for those who need to dupe the tests. A commercial industry of self-help programmes exist for people to improve their rating, if only marginally. Individuals with famously high ratings are murdered by those protesting against “rate-ism”.
It wasn’t until years later though, when a guy I was seeing decided to disclose that he was a carrier of a genetic disease “in case it affected our kids”—rather prematurely, age 23 and on our third date—that I saw the potential for a story. Relationships are so reliant on what we think we know about each other, the imaginary futures we create, and our subliminal expectations about what someone might deliver.
In the play, simple gene edits are already available, but edits for complex conditions are still in trial. I also tried to situate genetic treatment within the economics of their world: the positive potential of genomics isn’t clear-cut in a struggling NHS. These days we barely have the infrastructure to treat the population for diseases they already have, let alone to pre-emptively treat every possible condition that a patient may one day develop.
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