Full-length play

Aftermath

A Play by William Ivor Fowkes

 

Before the Changes.

 

 

After the collapse of their respective marriages, two newly-out gay fathers who used to 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 Walker is juggling his new identity, a 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 pages 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 make their chances for success as a couple questionable. 

Full script available at the National New Play Network's New Play Exchange (NPX). Click here.

LENGTH: 90 minutes

CAST: 6 actors (3M, 3F) playing 10 roles 

 

AFTERMATH is a "standalone" full-length play that may be performed on its own or together with the other 2 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 2 plays.)

 

 

SETTING 

Bronxville, NY; Manhattan; Montclair, NY; and Provincetown, MA.

 

TIME

1992 to 2000

 

CHARACTERS

Graham Walker. Investment banker from Westport, CT. Articulate and intense. 40s.

Chip Miller. Senior executive at a packaged goods company. 30s, then 40s.

Dan Carlsen. Lawyer from Fargo, ND. Athletic and boyish. 40s.

Kitty Walker. Book editor, then stay-at-home mom. Attractive and shy. 30s, then 40s.

Debbie Carlsen. Advertising account exec, then stay-at-home mom. 30s, then 40s.

Sally Miller. Chip's wife. Good at taking charge of things. 30s, then 40s.

James. Flirtatious young gay man. Early 20s.

Brenda Heckenkamp. Nosy neighbor with a secret. 40s.

William Walker. Graham Walker's great-grandson. 30s.

Emcee. (Voice)