After Life
Description
If you could spend eternity with just one precious memory, what would it be?
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.
Reviews
"Miraculous... an absolutely superb play... I was incredibly moved by it... a properly transcendent piece of theatre."
- Time Out
"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."
- Guardian
"A compelling vision of eternity."
- The Times