Jose Solís takes a look at After the Blast:
In the future, we still won't know how to deal with depression, or so believes playwright Zoe Kazan, who creates one of the most insightful portraits of the disorder in After the Blast which opened October 23, at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center. Kazan's heroine, Anna (Cristin Milioti), lives in a future where the human race has been forced to move underground, after a series of nuclear and environmental cataclysms rendered the surface uninhabitable. She shares her home with her husband Oliver (William Jackson Harper) who works in a governmental department in charge of restoring the surface. Anna is suffering from a severe depression that has deemed her unable to get a permit for procreation. In this society, married couples are given only a few chances to have children, and Anna and Oliver have only one strike left. . . . |
