In Through the Night, Daniel Beaty portrays an entire community of people who experience an unexpected epiphany on the same evening that changes their lives forever. The play tells a timely and inspiring story of possibility and hope, weaving together a blend of humor, poetry, music and drama.
What Is the Story of Through the Night?
In this one-man show, Daniel Beaty plays six different characters struggling with some type of conflict on the same eventful night. All the characters are linked and their lives intersect throughout the course of the show. The characters include an ex-con anxiously waiting in an emergency room as his girlfriend gives birth, a preacher struggling with an eating disorder, his closeted homosexual son dealing with a demanding job and enervated lover, a troubled youth turned high school graduate readying for college, a father straining to maintain his privately owned small business and his young son who only wants to see his father happy.