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Directed by Billy Dragoo

After the Fall is a memory play. Quentin begins speaking to someone offstage. Perhaps he speaks to the audience, perhaps to an invisible friend or therapist. What becomes clear is this: everything that happens onstage is in Quentin's mind; we see the other characters from his point of view. Something has happened to this man to force him into a reflective state of being. He is a lawyer whose primary client is himself. Quentin investigates how things have turned out the way they have from his own perception of truth. People from his past--wives, lovers, clients, and friends--appear and fade away as Quentin remembers past encounters. He wanted to do good in life, to love and be loved. But his first two marriages ended in divorce and he betrayed a friend. As the play moves forward and backward in time, Quentin acknowledges his own capacity for cruelty and murder--not the physical taking of anotherís life but the murder of love, his own as well as the love of others.