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Through the Night

  • Daniel Beaty
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy
  • 1M
  • ISBN: 9780573699528

"May be one of the most uplifting and inspiring pieces of theater you'll see this year."

TheaterMania.com

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Show
Through the Night is a timely and inspiring story of possibility and hope, weaving together a unique blend of humor, poetry, music, and drama. It portrays a community of people who experience an unexpected epiphany on the same evening that changes their lives forever.

Published in Emergency & Through the Night.

REVIEWS:

"May be one of the most uplifting and inspiring pieces of theater you'll see this year."

 TheaterMania.com

"Daniel Beaty's poetic solo show is a thing of beauty, wit, grit and piercing lyricism."

 The New York Times

Premiere Production: Through the Night premiered at the Union Square Theatre in New York City in September 2010 under the direction of Charles Randolph-Wright.
  • Casting: 1M
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting, Role(s) for Black Actor(s)
  • Casting Notes: Originally performed by 1 male, cast may be expanded.

  • ERIC - a young black boy
    'TWON - a young black man
    MOMS - his mother
    DRE - a black man
    KIM - his girlfriend
    ISAAC - a black man
    ALAN - his lover
    MR. ROGERS - a black man
    SARAH - his wife
    BISHOP - an older black man
    ELLEN - his wife