After Life
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 8M, 6F
- ISBN: 9781839040146
If you could spend eternity with just one precious memory, what would it be?
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged by enigmatic officials, they must sift through their past lives to choose their forever.
Adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning film, After Life is a surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live -- and to die.
Written by Jack Thorne from a concept by Bunny Christie, Jeremy Herrin and Thorne, After Life was first premiered at the National Theatre, London, in June 2021. It was directed by Herrin, in a co-production with Headlong, by special arrangement with Buena Vista Theatrical.
REVIEWS:
"A compelling vision of eternity."
The Times
"A powerful show with subtlety and tenderness."
The i
"A great idea, charmingly done... Although After Life is based on a film, its best parts are pure theatre."
The Guardian
"Miraculous.... an absolutely superb play... I was incredibly moved by it... a properly transcendent piece of theatre."
Time Out
Characters
- Casting: 8M, 6F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible)
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