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Launching Into Adulthood, With Frenemies and Hummus: All Nighter
Senior year is almost over, guys.
If you’re the kind of person who wakes up in the middle of the night with nightmares about an essay you forgot to finish writing, a play like All Nighter is liable to give you stress flashbacks, doubly so if you happen to have gone to college in the early 2010s. Lester takes the assignment and runs with it, cavorting around the stage in a DIY outfit that anticipates the style of Chappell Roan (the on-point costumes are by Michelle J. Li) while nailing the non sequiturs that Margolin hands her, like, “I want to be a painter… and a Democrat.” As the characters kept not addressing these conflicts that simmered but never boiled, I kept thinking that, no matter how many all-nighters you pull, those assignments do finally have to be turned in, and the real world is going to crash through any fantasy, even one as deeply cherished as the lies college friends tell each other to get along.
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