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How the Stars of ‘All Nighter’ Get That College Vibe
The actresses talk about bonding over their nightly cram session, and have also compiled a playlist of some of the songs that get them going.
If the bottom-feeding salesmen of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” sound as if they’re powered by cocaine and cold coffee, the college women of Natalie Margolin’s “All Nighter” lean toward Adderall and Arizona Iced Tea.
Set in 2014, this new comedy takes place during the cram session of the title, when five friends bond, write papers and argue. The show, which is running at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space through May 18, explores the ties that bind — in every sense of that last word.
“I think in those relationships that feel that big and that are so intertwined with your own sense of self, it can be a process to fully disentangle,” Margolin (“The Party Hop”) said in a video interview.
To suggest those intricate friendships, the cast members forged a real-life bond. “I think they were all so committed to the play that there was this unifying force where they were all obsessed with getting it right,” the director Jaki Bradley said via video. “It feels like that just kind of fused them together.”
The cast is a who’s who of up-and-comers from stage and screen. Sharing one dressing room are Alyah Chanelle Scott (HBO Max’s “The Sex Lives of College Girls”) and Havana Rose Liu (“No Exit,” “Bottoms,” that Chanel ad with Timothée Chalamet).
