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Life Ever After

By: Carla Grauls
Narrated by: Raúl Castillo, Nana Mensah, Piper Goodeve
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Tech City: Society is obsessed with relentless progress and the possibility of eternal life. A woman and a man meet in waiting room, anticipating a procedure that will incorporate the latest science and technology into their minds and bodies, heightening their awareness and increasing their productivity. Years pass, their relationship deepens and fades, and they grow increasingly uncertain where the AI stops and where they begin. A romantic drama exploring the potentiality of transhumanism, Life Ever After is a rich listening experience that is at once naturalistic and poetic.

Playwright Carla Grauls was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible commissioned playwright, she received funding and creative support to develop Life Ever After.

Special thanks: Meroe Candy, story researcher; Dr. Gill Haddow based in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh; Tom Douglas, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Oxford.

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©2019 Carla Grauls (P)2019 AO Media LLC Drama & Plays United States World Literature Thought-Provoking Funny Inspiring Technology

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About the Creator

Carla Grauls is an award-winning playwright based in London who won the Nick Darke Award for her play Made for Him. Her plays have been performed in London, Italy, and South Africa. In 2016, she was selected to write a play for Promised Lands, a playwriting festival based in Milan, exploring themes of migration. Her critically acclaimed play Occupied at Theatre503 was nominated for two Off West End Theatre Awards in 2014. The same year, she was honored at HRM’s RADA ceremony at Buckingham Palace celebrating excellence in the Dramatic Arts. She also works as a script reader.

Raúl Castillo
Nana Mensah

About the Performer

Raúl Castillo is best known for his portrayal of Paps in the critically acclaimed We the Animals, for which he was nominated a Spirit Award, and for his role as Richie on the HBO series Looking. We the Animals, based on the novel of the same name, won the NEXT Innovator Award following its premiere at Sundance 2018. Raúl just wrapped work on the feature film Little Fish with director Chad Hartigan and Knives Out, written and directed by Rian Johnson and will be in theaters nationwide November 2019. Raúl currently can be seen in El Chicano, by director Ben Bray and the critically acclaimed second season of the STARZ original series Vida created by Tanya Saracho.

Photographed by Stephanie Diana

About the Performer

Nana Mensah is a Ghanaian-American writer, actor, and director. She plays the role of Sade in the popular series, An African City (2015 Golden Movie Award Winner, 2016 AMVCA Nominee) and appeared in Tracy Letts's Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, Man from Nebraska, for which she was nominated for 2017 Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics' Circle Awards. She starred as Clare in the hit 2016 OBIE Award-winning play, I'll Never Love Again (a chamber piece) by Clare Barron. In the summer of 2018, she joined the Broadway cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. In television, Nana has been seen recently in the CBS All Access series, The Good Fight, as well as in Orange is the New Black for Netflix, Madam Secretary, and Elementary for CBS. She is currently shooting a recurring role on the NBC medical drama series, New Amsterdam, and will be next seen in the most-watched Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why.

Photographed by Christine Jean Chambers

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Great narration. I couldn’t stop listening till suddenly it was finished. Made me think about our desire to improve, forget our fears and past pains and never make mistakes even though this is what makes us human.

Beautiful and thought provoking

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I thought this would be a simple story, but this makes you reflect. You contemplate growth and maturity. It teaches if you are truly listening. It is not deep, but it has breadth.

Thought provoking

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loved it! well written and performed. an AI story that is creative, entertaining and thought provoking. highly recommend.

intriguing

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Had my imagination going! I know this technology will be here some day.
Will I use it? I don't know.

Great Book

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I loved this in a strange way. It had me in deep thought about my last relationship.

Weirdly Entertaining 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Well written. Futuristic but so currently real. It was a wonderful audio book that held my interest and kept me captivated with each chapter. It was a great way to spend my relaxing rainy afternoon.

New perspective

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I took a moment to get in to it, but definitely did, very interesting take.

interesting story

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What a crazy story of the future and some what SCARY realization that we the Human race, is eventually going to bring the World as we know it to its knees. I really love it and I hate it for make it so real.

LISTEN TO ME

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A gentle tragedy of two people coming to grips with opposing, changing views of what personal growth brings with it.

Future Fable

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The story is amazingly coherent (not always easily done for a tale bound in time jumps), and the actors voices are so well chosen! The performances are completely real and consistent; I hated for it to end.

Georgeously written and performed

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