After-play
by Anne Meara

Name: After-play
Brand: Anne Meara
SKU: 9780822204596
Rating: 2.78 (10 reviews)

After-play Book Cover — After-play Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

45 minsInterior SetAmerican Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers find the setting of the play to be fitting for the Christmas season, even if it is somewhat vague. One reviewer appreciates the appropriate timing of reading the play during the holidays, though it did not meet all expectations.

Seasonal setting appreciatedFits well for holiday readingVague context of Christmas

Synopsis

THE STORY: Set in the newest in Manhattan restaurant, the play opens with an ethereal waiter preparing for the arrival of a party of four.

Just as the two couples are about to enter, it magically begins to snow making the night perfect for a cozy

Press Reviews

"Meara…has written an astonishingly strong first play…Think Edward Albee and maybe Shecky Greene filtered through the sensibility of an observant woman on her way to psychological perfect pitch…No joke. Meara is a find.” —Newsday (NY). ”There is a solidity to Meara's writing that a lot of theatre writing lacks. That makes this an unusually entertaining evening."
— New York Daily News