About the book.

 After is a play about people. It is character based and explores the terrors and pleasures of growing up in a world very different from the world we live in now.

 The children in Gamston Lodge children's home have been left without adult supervision owing to a disease epidemic which has destroyed not only their society but the world in general.

 A mysterious man has come into their lives and taken them over, looking after them in a much more benign way than did their previous 'carers' .

 The play opens with the children alone. Joshua, the one adult in their lives, has gone to find something, they're not quite sure what, and they are once again fending for themselves.

 A wounded man arrives on their door step and without Joshua to guide them, the older children try to care for him.

 Joshua returns but he is not alone. He has brought a woman from another 'community' with him.

 The play explores the sexual and emotional tensions between the teenagers and the three  adults.

 Some adult language and indications of past child abuse. Unsuitable for under sixteens.