After the Flood

This collection includes three short plays: WAYS YOU CAN SURVIVE THE WORLD by Jennifer Tuckett, AFTER THE FLOOD by Dorothy Fortenberry, and WHEN IT RAINS by Lauren Feldman.

WAYS YOU CAN SURVIVE THE WORLD: What would you do if you woke up one day before school and discovered you just happened to be a superhero?

Impress your friends or save the world?

Two ordinary schoolgirls, Yasmin and Katie, try to make sense of this crazy and confused world in this honest and powerful play.

AFTER THE FLOOD: Voices from early twentieth-century New Orleans speak to the levees and the floods.

WHEN IT RAINS: An estranged mother visits her daughter in college in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.“IN TIMES OF DISASTER introduces three exciting new playwrights, all first-year students in the Playwriting Department of the Yale School of Drama, all born within six months of each other; one from Miami, one from DC, one from England.

A deep and clear moral center runs through these plays, all of which ask us to look not only at our lives but at the state of our world.

Only twenty-six years old, these three playwrights can still remember what it was like to believe in things and be innocent, so it is even all the more heartbreaking when they show us how far from innocence our world has come.”

—Richard Nelson