After Dinner


After Dinner is a play by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell. It was Bovell's first play, written in 1984, when he lived in Carlton, Melbourne.
After Dinner was first performed at La Mama Theatre in 1988, and went on to be performed throughout Australia.
It is still regularly performed.

Plot

An acutely observed but tender-hearted account of relationships and behaviour in a suburban pub bistro on a Friday night.

First Production

After Dinner was first performed at La Mama, Melbourne, on 20 April 1988 with the following cast:
GORDON: Tom Gutteridge
DYMPIE: Kim Trengove
PAULA: Eugenia Fragos
MONIKA: Leigh Morgan
STEPHEN: Peter Murphy
Director, Kim Durban
Designer, Amanda Johnson
Stage Manager, Jane Allen
Music, Tom Gillick and The Heartbreaks