National Theatre Live: After Life
2021A group of strangers grapple with this impossible question as they find themselves in a bureaucratic waiting room between life and death. Encouraged by enigmatic officials, they must sift through their past lives to choose their forever. Adapted from Hirokazu Kore-eda's award-winning film, After Life is a surreal and powerfully human look at the way we view our lives, and a haunting meditation on what it is to live - and to die.
Acted in
Olatunji Ayofe
as Obafemi Taylor
Nino Furuhata
as Young Ichiro Watanabe & Henry Thompson
Danielle Henry
as One
Madeline Holliday
as Jill Smart & Young Beatrice
Togo Igawa
as Ichiro Watanabe
Anoushka Lucas
as Katie Watanabe
Kevin McMonagle
as Five
Jack James Ryan
as Actor Harold & Graham Jenkins
Simon Startin
as Three
Luke Thallon
as Two
June Watson
as Beatrice Killick
Millicent Wong
as Four