Nelson
by Sam Marks

Nelson Book Cover
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Present Day Interior Set

Synopsis

Nelson is the story of a young man caught between two worlds.

By day, he works as a low-level assistant to a film talent agent.

By night, Nelson is the camera man for an underground, gang-related videotape series.

As the videos become increasingly dangerous and popular, Nelson develops an overwhelming obsession with a C-List actress.

Eventually, Nelson's two worlds collide with disturbing, unsettling results.

The play is a darkly comic look at the guilt dream of a man trying to find something authentic in a world of two very different kinds of film.

Press Reviews

"A funny-creepy play by Sam Marks"

— Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

"Marks continues to offer a fresh urban voice. Nelson grabs your ear from the outset with its halting staccato street talk, and in the fine office scenes, Nelson’s racist boss attacks him with a Mamet-like patter of disdaining sarcasm."

— Time Out New York

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573663543
ISBN-10 0573663548

Nelson is a play written by Sam Marks and published by Samuel French .

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Restrictions: Major Markets Only (US) / Standard Restriction (UK)

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