The Hamilton College Department of Theatre will present John O'Keefe's satiric comedy All Night Long, Wednesday through Saturday, April 24-27, at 8 p.m., in Minor Theater.
Directed by Carole Bellini-Sharp and featuring a cast of Carter Cox '03, Johanna Liias '02, Aaron Wilton '03, Gillian Smith '04, and Sasha Kaye '05, All Night Long is the outrageously funny pseudo-sitcom of 18 hours in a nuclear family's life (complete with 2.3 children-the .3 being a genderless half-human, half oversized neutron). In one off-beat vignette after another, familial expectations and uninhibited revelations, astral projection, thought transference and the thin line separating the working and dreaming mind hold us entranced. All Night Long captures the feelings of "alive-ness" and uneasiness we sometimes get at 3 a.m.-when the subconscious senses that the conscious has let its guard down-and confronts you with stuff you really don't want to know. O'Keefe is after the same classical surrealism as Luis Bunuel & Andre Breton-motivated by a desire to combine daytime reality with powerful images from the subconscious into a super-reality.
All Night Long is the dream-like but real and heartwarming exploration, ala Thornton Wilder, of a family's life-shifting moods, plot lines and perhaps even geographical locations with amazing speed and whimsy. As the mother in the play says "Don't explain it; you might run out of ways to look at it."
Jerome Weeks of the Dallas Morning News calls All Night Long, "An exuberant, satirical...cosmic...underground comic book version of Finnegan's Wake and Father Knows Best." Hall Gelb of San Francisco City Arts says, "O'Keefe looks past the satire to the realities and possibilities of family relationship, as well as to alternative levels of being."
All Night Long will be performed in Minor Theater on the Hamilton College campus. This performance contains adult situations and language. Tickets are $6 general admission, $4 seniors and $3 students. For tickets or more information call the department of theatre and dance at 859-4057.
