Characters: 6 male, 2 female, plus extras (w/doubling)Multiple Sets
A man who has everything. Money, friends, a beautiful home. And
then - pfft It's all vanished. Max Reinhardt, one the greatest
impresarios of theatrical history, had a lifelong ambition - to
dissolve the boundary between theatre and the world it portrays.
Each year at the Salzburg Festival he directed a famous morality
play, Everyman, about God sending Death to summon a representative
of mankind for judgment. The victim he chooses is a man who, like
Reinhardt, rejoices in his wealth and all the pleasures that money
can buy. Then in 1938 Hitler declares his own day of reckoning and
sends Death into Austria - whereupon Reinhardt, a Jew, is left as
naked and vulnerable as Everyman himself. Michael Frayn's Afterlife
is the story of how Reinhardt achieves his great ambition; though
in a way he can scarcely have foreseen. "In his seventy-fifth year
Michael Frayn has produced a minor masterpiece, and maybe not so
minor either. I'd guess Afterlife is the best verse drama in
English since T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral..." -New
Stateman"A magnificent new play...Frayn exploits to chilling effect
the ambiguous border between playing and reality." - Times Literary
Supplement"The world premiere of Michael Frayn's Afterlife took
place last night at the National Theatre, and it was an absolute
firecracker." -New York Sun"Afterlife...Michael Frayn's tremendous
new play is a piece of history, ...with sharp style and thrilling
clarity" -The New York Times
"Reinhardt describes himself as someone whose goal is to "break
the bonds twixt world and dream," and Afterlife obliges him by
turning his own story into an "Everyman" drama, a consideration of
the transience of life and the inevitably of death, often delivered
in rhymed couplets-It's clever and, as you might expect from Mr.
Frayn, impeccably executed." - London Theatre Journal
"A funny, witty, thoroughly enjoyable evening with more than a
few serious ideas."-WriteWords.com
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