Afore Night Come is a play by the British playwright David Rudkin, first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962. The subject matter of the play meant that any production in a public theatre would probably have been vetoed by the Lord Chamberlain, therefore the RSC mounted the play at the members-only, Arts Theatre. It is set in an orchard in the Black Country region of England's Midlands. In the play, two young men and a tramp arrive one morning looking for job picking fruit, but as the day wears on there is violence and bloodshed. In the play Rudkin harks back to a pagan era where the crops were fertilised by human blood. Kenneth Tynan, reviewing the play in The Observer, wrote "Not since Look Back In Anger has a playwright made a debut more striking than this."