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Nylon

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 2m

Sofia Alvarez

An estranged couple, Anna and Matthew, meet for the first time in four years. Their joint history is dredged to the surface in a way that threatens their futures as well as those of everyone around them.

Nylon

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 2m
  • Duration
    Duration
    105 Minutes

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Summary
An estranged couple, Anna and Matthew, meet for the first time in four years. Their joint history is dredged to the surface in a way that threatens their futures as well as those of everyone around them. This psychological drama explores the options available to women and the ways in which we become our own worst enemies when we stray from the acceptable paths available to us.
History
Nylon was first produced by Nicola Korzenko for Blockchain Theater Project (BTP) at Theaterlab in New York City in March of 2019. The performance was directed by Knud Adams.
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ANNA – A magazine editor living in London. American.
MATTHEW – Anna’s ex-boyfriend. A rooftop gardener and former musician living in New York. American.
MARISOL – The mother of Matthew’s former bandmate. A homemaker living in Princeton, NJ. American.
GIGI – Matthew’s girlfriend. A waitress living in New York. American.
COLIN – Anna’s husband. A civil servant living in London. English.

In the first production of Nylon, both Matthew and Marisol were played by Hispanic actors. This was intentional but is not a necessity.
All characters may be played by actors of any ethnicity so long as the casting makes sense for the questions the play raises surrounding who is related to whom.

  • Setting Back and forth between New York, London and Princeton, New Jersey. The 2010s.
  • Additional Features Play with Music
  • Duration 105 Minutes

Media

“A charged and emotionally complex work.” – Washington Square News

“The oscillating characters and story weave themselves into a charged and emotionally complex work.” – Washington Square News

“Sofia Alvarez's Nylon — evidently a response, at least in part, to Ibsen's A Doll's House — is so simmeringly alive in its opening scene that we invest in these characters immediately.” – The New York Times

“A small and intimate new play that manages to be simultaneously simple and yet intricately plotted... Alvarez’s succinct script is wonderfully complex.” – Theatre Is Easy

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In the first production of Nylon, both Matthew and Marisol were played by Hispanic actors. This was intentional but is not a necessity.

All characters may be played by actors of any ethnicity so long as the casting makes sense for the questions the play raises surrounding who is related to whom.

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Sofia Alvarez

Sofia Alvarez
Sofia Alvarez’s plays include Between Us Chickens (SCR, EST LA), Life Drawing, The Fish Bowl, NYLON, Friend Art (Second Stage Uptown) The Orphan’s Club and Corpse Pose. With composer Daniel Roland Tierney she adapted a musical version of William Steig’s classic children’s boo ...
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