Afterclap
A man wakes up naked on the floor in the backroom of a bar at 4 am, not immediately clear how he got there, both trying and dreading to remember. He dresses, he drinks, he self-medicates, and he recounts, in a quest for self-exoneration. Grappling with the gnawing feelings of his culpability, poring over the physical evidence of his guilt, he obsesses over the nature and extent of his accountability in the afterclap—the unexpected damage that follows the end of an affair.
Cast Requirements
1 man
Set Description
Fixed set
Press
"Reitz's play unfolds in real time; what we hear are this young man's thoughts, perhaps actually spoken aloud, perhaps not. From a vague stream of consciousness eventually the sorry truth of a wasted few months pours out ... a raw, aching, awful journey that Reitz causes us to take inside this man's conscience and (broken) spirit. Afterclap is a harrowing, untethering bit of theatre."
--nytheatre.com
Production and Development History
Produced: Seventh Street Small Stage, NYC.