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Spay

  • Madison Fiedler
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 1M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573710742

Two sisters, living in the mess their mother made, try to break old cycles at new costs. A provocative drama about choice and to whom it’s given.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 90 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Drugs, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! American Theatre Critics Association's M. Elizabeth Osborn Award (2023)
    Runner-Up! Princess Grace Awards Playwriting Fellowship
    Runner-Up! Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for Excellence in Feminist Playwriting
    Nominee! 4 Jeff Awards including Best New Work
    Finalist! Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award
    Selected for 2020 Kilroys List and 2019 National Showcase of New Plays (National New Play Network)
Williamson, West Virginia has been aptly nicknamed “Pilliamson” as long as the Attridge sisters have called it home. In the wake of their mother’s overdose, the two sisters have taken very different paths. As Harper raises Noah’s child, vowing to tread new ground, Noah finds herself unable to break old cycles – until a stranger promises a way to do just that. Madison Fiedler’s new drama interrogates the question of autonomy in small-town Appalachia.
REVIEWS:

"Powerful. Fiedler's thought-provoking play... packs an emotional punch."

 Chicago Tribune

"Harrowing and haunting... a stellar script that deserves consideration from any theatre company currently planning their next season."

 Rescripted

"Madison Fiedler's provocative new play presents an unflinching narrative of sisters in crisis."

 Newcity Stage

"The pain and struggle of both sisters comes through with sharp poignancy... [Spay] succeeds at creating a framework for two women’s domestic conflicts arising from a larger national and generational problem (their mother became addicted and OD’d after a car accident) that nobody seems to know how to address successfully."

 Chicago Reader

"Fiedler's thought-provoking play, which addresses these daunting issues through the story of one family in a small Appalachian town, packs an emotional punch... a powerful story about opioid abuse and families, as well as a real-world proposed remedy."

 Chicago Tribune

Premiere Production: Spay made its world premiere at Rivendell Theatre in Chicago on March 17, 2022. Directed by Georgette Verdin, the production featured Mary Cross, Rae Gray, Spencer Huffman, Tara Mallen and Krystel McNeil.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M, 3F

  • NOAH – Harper’s half-sister, 20. White. An active user. Swings between goofy sweetness and rage. Anxious, childlike. Fervently attached to people.
    HARPER – Noah’s half-sister, 25. Biracial/Black. Not a user. A kindergarten teacher. Patient, tough-love, intractable. Kind, not nice. Big on rules.
    AUBREY – Project Protection representative, late 40s to mid-50s. White. Not from around here. Watchful, bright, ceaselessly polite. A Midwestern sensibility.
    JACKSON – Noah’s long-time on-again off-again boyfriend and dealer, 21. Not a user. White or assimilated into whiteness in this town. Affable, playful, more vulnerable than he lets on.

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    Williamson, West Virginia has been aptly nicknamed “Pilliamson” as long as the Attridge sisters have called it home. In the wake of their mother’s overdose, the two sisters have taken very different paths. As Harper raises Noah’s child, vowing to tread new ground, Noah finds herself unable to break old cycles – until a stranger promises a way to do just that. Madison Fiedler’s new drama interrogates the question of autonomy in small-town Appalachia.

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