Afterimage Book

189. Afterimage by Robert Chafe
This play is based on a short story by Michael Crummey, a Newfoundland writer, and I really want to see it now. The play is filled with flames, electricity, flashes, lightening and the effects that these have on perception after they are gone. Lise, who works in the local hospital, is seen as a witch in her community and can see the future. When she meets Winston, a hydro linesman who has been electrocuted, she finds that he, too, has the gift, which he did not have before the accident. They marry and have three children, but the middle one, Leo, is not like Jerome and Theresa, who can see parts of the future. And how could he have been born between the other two? I would love to see this play, which was staged on a copper surface and had some dangerous-sounding effects. Reading the play a second time shows you all the clues you might have missed.