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In her new drama, the playwright Natalie Margolin is all in on the period specifics.
Wilma, as a character, stands out because she supplies so much of the drama.
The drug focuses you, but in a way that makes everything seem equally important.
In doing all that detail work, Margolin is too polite and respectful toward her own characters.
She feints in some spiky and productively uncomfortable (non-derogatory) directions, but doesnt sit in them.
Much of the last third of the drama revolves around a lost credit card.
If were going to watch those friends onstage, we want to see that collision.
We want performance to, at a certain point, hit at something beyond itself.
Because whats real, onstage at least, is more than what is exactly mimetically rendered.
Its a deeper, riskier thing, to clearly see one other.
All Nighteris at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space.
