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Nightfall

By: Marisela Treviño Orta
Narrated by: Cynthia Bastidas, Jeremy Jordan, MaYaa Boateng
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Publisher's summary

A bonding adventure goes horribly wrong in this gripping story of trust, survival, and motherly instincts. Karla and her stepdaughter Olivia are alone on a remote family camping trip when news of a mysterious outbreak in nearby San Francisco begins to trickle in.

With little information to go on, the two women must identify the biggest threat to their safety: the supposedly deadly virus, the stranger who stumbles into their campsite, or each other.

Playwright Marisela Treviño Orta was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible-commissioned playwright, she received funding and creative support to develop Nightfall, which was directed by Elena Araoz.

Portions of this audiobook contain mature language and themes. Listener discretion is advised. 

©2020 Marisela Treviño Orta (P)2020 AO Media LLC

About the Creator

Marisela Treviño Orta is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and a core writer at The Playwrights' Center. She has been awarded the 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama, the 2009 Pen Center USA Literary Award in Drama, the 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award, and is a 2019 Kendeda Finalist. Her plays have been produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre Company, New Jersey Repertory Company, American Conservatory Theater, Stages Repertory Theatre, Halcyon Theatre, Shotgun Players, Su Teatro, and Brava Theater.

About the Performer

Cynthia Bastidas’s stage credits include the PlayOn! Shakespeare Festival (Classic Stage Company), Original Sound (Cherry Lane Theatre), #nowall (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center), The Mecca Tales (Sheen Theatre/Crossroads Theater), She She She (New Ohio Theatre), Informed Consent (Gulfshore Playhouse), Just Like Us (Denver Center Theatre), The Why Me Pen (Public Theater), Kita y Fernanda (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Co), Lost/Not Found (Up Theater), The World’s Fair Play Festival (Queens Theatre), The Golden Drum Year (Radical Evolution), Jackson Heights Trilogy (Theatre 167), Zero (Public Theater), and Anna in the Tropics (Lehman Stages). Television credits include Ramy S2 E6 and Homeland S6 E6. She has an MFA from Theater-Brooklyn College, and training from HB Studio, Labyrinth Master Class, and Andrew Wade-Royal Shakespeare Company.

About the Performer

MaYaa Boateng was recently featured in Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fairview. A standout both onstage and on-camera, Boateng’s work has been met with acclaimed distinction. In The New York Times, she is highlighted in Alex Hawgood’s Up Next artist spotlight series. Additional theater credits include Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation, Or the Reeducation of Undine (Signature Theatre) and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (The Public, Delacorte). She finds purpose in delving into a range of characters and exploring dangerous beautiful depths of humanity. On-screen, she has recurred both on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and Showtime’s City on a Hill. Most recently, Boateng starred in the much-talked-about season finale episode of HBO's High Maintenance. She holds an MFA from NYU Graduate Acting.

About the Performer

Jeremy Jordan recently starred on Broadway opposite Kerry Washington in the provocative new play American Son, and then reprised his role in the Netflix film adaptation. Next up is his lead role as seminal record producer and Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart in the feature Spinning Gold and starring as Seymour in the New York production of the iconic Little Shop of Horrors. Other films include The Last 5 Years opposite Anna Kendrick, Joyful Noise with Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton, and Newsies. His TV work includes as a series regular on The CW’s Supergirl, NBC’s Smash, and Disney Channel’s Tangled, and guest starring on The Flash, Elementary, and Law & Order: SVU. Other Broadway shows include his Tony-nominated starring role in Newsies, playing Clyde in Bonnie & Clyde (Theatre World Award), starring as Tony in West Side Story, and playing leads in Rock of Ages and Waitress.

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Loved this book!!!

Nightfall was a Very interesting and entertaining read I enjoyed listening to it....Try It.

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Good overall.

Good story! Kinda has a teen story vibe to it. Well acted performance by voice actors. Worth the listen!

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Even my kids would have left the daughter (spoiler. Kind of)

My kids and I share a love for fantasy, sci-fi and anime. But, even they would have left the daughter behind.

The performances were fine. Enough that it kept me there for a one hour plus story. I expected the step daughter to be a challenge. And she was not a character I had sympathy for.

The ending was also predictable. I really was hoping for something else in the end. A twist of some sort.

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No happy ending

If you want a happy ending go watch a Disney movie. This is a very good story.

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Mmm.. interesting

Good voice actors! Very convincing. The sounds at the end just kind of gross 😂 overall enjoyed it

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Quick and interesting

This is pretty dark but the performances are great. Not sure I loved the story itself but it's very well written.

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good

This is a really good short story. perfect when you don't have a lot if time but want to listen.

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loved it!

I really enjoyed this entire performance. Listening to it was absolutely gripping. I normally don't like zombie stories, but WOW!

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damn ain't that some shit how it all played out in the end nice little light entertainment loved the development of the relationship. kids are challenging sometimes and it takes patience and clearly the high road to deal she did good considerating the cards she had dealt to her 💯. I enjoyed this could have told us what happened with the rest of the fuckin world tho😒😶🤷🏾‍♀️👀💯

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Very well done

I’d give it 6 stars, if I could. The plot was engaging and thoughtful, bringing the listener more than a good suspense. Though, the storytelling delivered plenty of that too.

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