After You: A Play

Adele is dying—and Jean is helping her. The two elderly cousins of After You have come back to the family cottage on the Findlay Islands of Ontario's Lake Kawartha so that the stroke–ravaged Adele may die with peace and dignity amid their old girlhood haunts. But, while Jean methodically administers the required drugs, memory refuses to let either woman go gentle into that good night. The cottage and lake conjure up the ghosts of their former selves, and of the young man who was, to their minds, the "fork in the road" that determined the path of their lives.

Dave Carley is a Toronto based playwright, screenwriter, and editor. His plays have had over three hundred productions across Canada, the US, and in a dozen countries around the world. Dave has been playwright–in–residence at the Stratford Festival and the Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts. In 2000, he was presented with the Arthur Miller Playwriting Award.