After This Episode

by Brianna Barrett

| Full Length | Rae is diagnosed with cancer during her senior year in high school. Her sister Margo stays home from college to care for her. TV shows and social media posts become their main outlets to the world outside, as Rae copes with isolation in a highly-connected digital world.

| Full Length | Rae is diagnosed with cancer during her senior year in high school. Her sister Margo stays home from college to care for her. TV shows and social media posts become their main outlets to the world outside, as Rae copes with isolation in a highly-connected digital world.

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  • Bethany Dickens Assaf: After This Episode

    From the opening pages, I was so taken with this play's honesty, humor, and warmth. Barrett gets so much right here about hospitals, social media, grief, the critical mental health needs of caregivers, (hospital-centered TV programming! I could go on!), and does so through the lens of three well-crafted and well-balanced characters. This is top of my list to recommend to any theatre, particularly high schools, since the play provides rich material for young actors that never becomes shallow in its depiction of teenagers' anxieties, identity, and desire to connect in an authentic way.

    From the opening pages, I was so taken with this play's honesty, humor, and warmth. Barrett gets so much right here about hospitals, social media, grief, the critical mental health needs of caregivers, (hospital-centered TV programming! I could go on!), and does so through the lens of three well-crafted and well-balanced characters. This is top of my list to recommend to any theatre, particularly high schools, since the play provides rich material for young actors that never becomes shallow in its depiction of teenagers' anxieties, identity, and desire to connect in an authentic way.

  • Kevin Cirone: After This Episode

    So much heart, wit and character crammed into a ten-minute. Conversations that are so real and humorous but filled with tension. I'm not sure this couldn't be expanded into a full-length, as I found myself wanting to know more. Good, good stuff.

    So much heart, wit and character crammed into a ten-minute. Conversations that are so real and humorous but filled with tension. I'm not sure this couldn't be expanded into a full-length, as I found myself wanting to know more. Good, good stuff.

  • Lolly Ward: After This Episode

    A beautiful and funny take on a medical subject. There is so much reality and humanity in this script that lets us laugh hard even as we feel the pain.

    A beautiful and funny take on a medical subject. There is so much reality and humanity in this script that lets us laugh hard even as we feel the pain.

Development History

  • Type Commission, Organization Camas High School / Leukemia Lymphoma Society, Year 2019
  • Type Reading, Organization Fertile Ground Festival, Year 2017
  • Type Workshop, Organization Northwest Narrative Medicine Conference, Year 2017

Production History

  • Type High School, Organization Springfield High School, Year 2023
  • Type High School, Organization Camas High School, Year 2019

Awards

  • Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival
    Finalist
    2023