OUT ALL NIGHT AND LOST MY SHOES

written & performed by Terry Galloway

presented by Rude Mechs February 17, 18 , and 19, 2000 at Hyde Park Theatre

What is the proper etiquette of suicide? Is S & M ventriloquism an effective therapy for schizophrenics? Should drag be considered an act of self-defense? Will true love find a happy ending at the Lion’s Camp for Crippled Children? And what’s so natural about the Museum of Natural History?

Not quite blind as a bat, but definitely deaf as a doornail, Terry Galloway is the modern medical accident whoís asking these and other tough questionS in OUT ALL NIGHT AND LOST MY SHOES. It’s one hour of pure, energetic theater that mixes poetry, storytelling, stand-up, New Vaudeville and plain old corny vaudeville in a charged, moving celebration of life – hers and that of all oddballs.

SOME PEOPLE GET IT, SOME PEOPLE DON’T:

“She’s deaf. She’s queer. She’s a woman. And from the minute she begins the audience ís safe, dark anonymity is threatened.” — ChicagoOutlines

“Deaf, queer and a woman. . .her presence was unsettled and unsettling. ” — Chicago Reader

“A hoot and a provocateur from the get-go, Galloway blends physical humor, wry intelligence and a heartfelt mortification at human suffering. ” — L.A. Weekly

“Side splittingly funny and shocking, she never failed to connect.” — LA Times

“She didn’t move me.” — High Performance

“She drew us into a bond that proved unbreakable” — ArtForum

“She’s deaf. So what’s the big deal?” — Philadelphia Inquirer.

“. . .and she made fun of handicapped people.” — Chicago Reader

“. . .making wild sport of her own disabilities in defense of the defenseless, her main theme, eloquently pursued, is the use of art in hanging tough against life’s adversities.”

“Tough humor in the face of frightening subjects. . . bizarrely funny.” — San Francisco Examiner.

“Fiercely intelligent and brimful of ideas for shaking an audience out of its gosh-aren’t-we-enlightened complacency and onto that uncomfortable narrow ledge where we’re not sure whether we should be laughing or crying. A remarkable performance by a remarkable woman. ” — London’s Time Out

“Not for all audiences.” — The Scotsmam

“As the lady says when we laughed: sometimes it’s too damn late to do anything else. Great stuff!” — London Times