FULL-LENGTH PLAY (90 MINUTES). After the collapse of their respective marriages, two newly-out gay fathers who live in the same town embark on a challenging relationship. In the aftermath of divorce, and still mourning the death of his best friend and male lover of many years, Graham is juggling his new identity, his relationship with an ex-wife who can’t make sense of what happened, his desire to come out to his young sons despite her objections, and the news that she is already getting remarried. Chip Miller faces similar challenges, although the end of his marriage is much more explosive and public—the result of a gay sex scandal splashed across the front page of the tabloids—and his family has moved away after the embarrassment of the scandal. While their common circumstances and mutual attraction bring Graham and Chip together, their very different histories and conflicting approaches to navigating their new gay lives diminish their chances for success as a couple. AFTERMATH is about trying to create a new life after your old one is snatched away from you.

AFTERMATH is a “standalone” play that may be performed on its own or together with the other two plays (ROOMMATES and MARRIAGE) that make up THE BRONXVILLE TRILOGY, or Marriages of Inconvenience. (AFTERMATH is the third play in the trilogy and includes a PROLOGUE and an EPILOGUE when performed with the other two plays.)