Matt's show - 'After The End'

The show was a two hander. It ran at 1hr 30mins without an interval and both actors were on stage the whole time. Not easy!

The first scene where Mark tells Louise that a bomb has gone off killing everyone and everything they know.

There were some funny bits in the play honest.

The last scene of the play set in a prison.

This scene always proved tricky in reheasal obviously being uncomfortable for both actors and needing a hell of a lot of trust between the two.

Louise really looses it...

The charming scene where Louise threatens to cut my dangly bits off unless I tell her the truth about the bomb explosion. It was staged and lit in such a way that the audience didn't see a thing except a quick cheeky bum shot. Well we had to do something to get people to come and see it!

After days of Mark starving her Louise takes control and starts to give him a taste of his own medicine.

The bit I dreaded most each night. I really awful scene to do plus we would have bets backstage as to how many audience members would leave at this point. In the whole run I think only 3 people left. They claimed it was just too confronting and disturbing too watch. I would like to have explained that that was the point of the piece and that we were of course just acting!

This is Kathryn who played Louise. A very talented and intense actress. She was wonderful and scary in equal measures.

My close up...

The play gets increasingly disturbing as lack of food and water and physcological manipulation takes its toll.

The play only involved two characters Mark and Louise. They are trapped in Mark's bomb shelter after a nuclear bomb has wiped out everyone and everything they know. They just have to wait two weeks before they can go outside.

The moment the play turns very dark.

The play did have a few incredibly funny and comic moments before getting extremely dark.

Getting all riled up in one of the play's many political arguments. My character was a paranoid racist.