"After This" received funding from the #ArtApart programme with the National Theatre School of Canada, a response to the closing of theatre spaces and limiting of artistic opportunities during the Covid-19 pandemic. This funding covered production expenses and honorariums for actors and producers.
After This is a show about loneliness, about being alone with yourself — within a community or without. Part audio documentary, part verbatim theatre production, After This is a creative compilation of phone interviews with students, parents, professionals and seniors in Canada and abroad. I conducted these interviews in April and May 2020, during the period of social isolation prompted by COVID-19. This theatrical short film asks us to consider what it means to be alone, to be lonely and to be isolated. After This also examines community: its creation, the different forms it may take and how it is sustained. While we are alone, while we stay at home, what does it mean to be in a community? When does a community, or company, become claustrophobic? What does it mean to escape — and where will we escape to?
The full show is available below.
