National Theatre Live: After Life

Overview

A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged by enigmatic officials, they must sift through their past lives to choose their forever. Adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning film, After Life is a surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live – and to die.

Details

Cast

Olatunji Ayofe

Obafemi Taylor

Nino Furuhata

Young Ichiro Watanabe & Henry Thompson

Danielle Henry

One

Madeline Holliday

Jill Smart & Young Beatrice

Togo Igawa

Ichiro Watanabe

Anoushka Lucas

Katie Watanabe

Kevin McMonagle

Five

Jack James Ryan

Actor Harold & Graham Jenkins

Simon Startin

Three

Luke Thallon

Two

June Watson

Beatrice Killick

Millicent Wong

Four