Last Night in Inwood

by Alix Sobler

A major disaster in Manhattan has everyone on the island looking for high ground. For Danny’s family and friends, that higher ground happens to be her one-bedroom apartment in Inwood. As the world outside goes to pieces, Danny tries to keep the peace among the assorted characters gathered in her space.
They might make it through this crisis if they can manage to survive each other.

A major disaster in Manhattan has everyone on the island looking for high ground. For Danny’s family and friends, that higher ground happens to be her one-bedroom apartment in Inwood. As the world outside goes to pieces, Danny tries to keep the peace among the assorted characters gathered in her space.
They might make it through this crisis if they can manage to survive each other.

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Last Night in Inwood

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  • Cheryl Bear: Last Night in Inwood by Alix Sobler
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    A powerful glimpse into mounting tensions in an age of turmoil with varying views. Together they need to get through it, but the arguments rise. Will they rely on each other or be torn apart? Riveting and well done.

    A powerful glimpse into mounting tensions in an age of turmoil with varying views. Together they need to get through it, but the arguments rise. Will they rely on each other or be torn apart? Riveting and well done.

    ”
  • Ellen Steves: Last Night in Inwood by Alix Sobler
    “

    Alix Sobler is a technique juggernaut. With precision skill, she is able to build fully realized worlds that encircle and intoxicate audiences. I had the pleasure of seeing "Last Night in Inwood" in New York City, and this play is dying to be produced. What could be worse than the end of the world... besides having to spend it with your family? This play is more than an apocalypse story, it's about the generation gap. Our inability to communicate. It's about the world millennials have inherited.

    Alix Sobler is a technique juggernaut. With precision skill, she is able to build fully realized worlds that encircle and intoxicate audiences. I had the pleasure of seeing "Last Night in Inwood" in New York City, and this play is dying to be produced. What could be worse than the end of the world... besides having to spend it with your family? This play is more than an apocalypse story, it's about the generation gap. Our inability to communicate. It's about the world millennials have inherited.

    ”
  • Nick Malakhow: Last Night in Inwood by Alix Sobler
    “

    A deftly rendered micro-cosm of the city is brought together in an apartment as imminent disaster looms! Sobler has created a fascinating and naturalistic portrait of how a scenario such as this might play out in real life. The page-turning dialogue moves at a brisk pace and the world building, ever important in a science fiction piece, is subtle but richly layered and communicated mostly through the socio-cultural issues at play. I hope to see a production of this sometime in the near future!

    A deftly rendered micro-cosm of the city is brought together in an apartment as imminent disaster looms! Sobler has created a fascinating and naturalistic portrait of how a scenario such as this might play out in real life. The page-turning dialogue moves at a brisk pace and the world building, ever important in a science fiction piece, is subtle but richly layered and communicated mostly through the socio-cultural issues at play. I hope to see a production of this sometime in the near future!

    ”
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  • Workshop, Columbia University, 2017

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