{"product_id":"9780573696565","title":"Afterlife","description":"Characters: 6 male, 2 female, plus extras (w\/doubling)\u003cp\u003eMultiple Sets\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man who has everything. Money, friends, a beautiful home. And then - pfft! It's all vanished. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMax Reinhardt,\u003cbr\u003eone the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, had a lifelong ambition - to dissolve the boundary between theatre and the world it portrays. Each year at the\u003cbr\u003eSalzburg Festival he directed a famous morality play,\u003cbr\u003eEveryman, about God sending Death to summon a representative of mankind for judgment. The victim he chooses is a man who, like Reinhardt, rejoices in his wealth and all the pleasures that money can buy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Then in 1938 Hitler declares his own day of reckoning and sends Death into Austria - whereupon Reinhardt, a Jew,\u003cbr\u003eis left as naked and vulnerable as Everyman himself.\u003cbr\u003eMichael Frayn's \u003cem\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how Reinhardt achieves his great ambition; though in a way he can scarcely have foreseen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In his seventy-fifth year Michael Frayn has produced a minor masterpiece, and maybe not so minor either. I'd guess \u003cem\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/em\u003e is the best verse drama in English since T.S.\u003cbr\u003eEliot's \u003cem\u003eMurder in the Cathedral...\u003c\/em\u003e\" -\u003cem\u003eNew Stateman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A magnificent new play...Frayn exploits to chilling effect the ambiguous border between playing and reality.\" - \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The world premiere of Michael Frayn's \u003cem\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/em\u003e took place last night at the National Theatre, and it was an absolute firecracker.\" -\u003cem\u003eNew York Sun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/em\u003e...Michael Frayn's tremendous new play is a piece of history, ...with sharp style and thrilling clarity\" -\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reinhardt describes himself as someone whose goal is to \"break the bonds twixt world and dream,\" and \u003cem\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/em\u003e obliges him by turning his own story into an \"Everyman\" drama, a consideration of the transience of life and the inevitably of death, often delivered in rhymed couplets-It's clever and, as you might expect from Mr. Frayn, impeccably executed.\" -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon Theatre Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A funny, witty, thoroughly enjoyable evening with more than a few serious ideas.\"-\u003cem\u003eWriteWords.com\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samuel French, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047106560240,"sku":"9780573696565","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780573696565_p0.jpg?v=1763720207","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780573696565","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}