After the End

A city under attack from a nuclear blast. As the dust settles, Louise wakes to find herself in a fallout shelter with Mark, the colleague who has saved her life. They have enough water and food to last two weeks. Now they just need to find a way of surviving each other.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Louise
Mark

Crew

Assistant Director
Casting Assistant
Casting Director
Designer
Director
Fight Director
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer & Composer
Sound Designer Mentor
Writer

Photographs

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Play description

This is what you want. Is it? This is what you’re making me do. This is what you’re making me do to help you. To help you Louise! No more nice. You like bastards? You like a bastard do you?”

Mark and Louise, workmates, live together for two weeks in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. Louise, the cute girl in the office, always thought Mark was quite sweet. Mark, from reprographics, always had a thing for Louise. Tins of chilli, Dungeons and Dragons and a knife: paramount until the bitter end. But After the End the story becomes a reality.

“Every now and then you encounter a production that makes you sit up and stare – and feel a bit like you’ve been punched in the chest, this was certainly the case with After the End… The already claustrophobic space is transformed into a hotbox of psychosis and confrontation… I was taken well out of my theatrical comfort zone by this production, and I was grateful that its unswerving pace did not allow me to slip back in.” (Varisty Newspaper)

Observations

  1. On 1st February 2022 at 4:34 p.m., alexpacker noted:

    This production was originally scheduled to run from 3rd March – 20th March 2021 as part of Stratford East’s Reopening Season. However, it was subsequently postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and remounted 1 year later.

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