

Afterplay
Brian Friel


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.
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
"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
After-play is a American comedy play written by Anne Meara and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1996).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1996 · 72 pp
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