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Gloria
Gloria
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Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Format: Softcover # of Pages: 61 Pub. Date: 2016 ISBN-10: 0822234335 ISBN-13: 9780822234333 Cast Size: 3 women, 3 men (doubling)
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About
the Play:
Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer
Prize for Drama
Gloria is a full-length drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
A group of twenty-something editorial assistants are pursuing it all
at one of New York's most esteemed cultural magazines. When a
seemingly normal day at the office turns out to be anything but,
these aspiring journalists recognize an opportunity to seize a
career-defining moment. Gloria is a fresh and surprising
satire that takes a scathing look at office politics and the
cutthroat, opportunistic culture of modern media.
Gloria is a work place dark comedy that deftly transports the audience from satire to thriller
and back again. New York. A city that runs on ambition – and
coffee. It's business as usual for a group of disgruntled
20-somethings
in
the offices of a chic,
unnamed Manhattan magazine, where the only subject matter the group
can agree on is that they want more than the life they're leading.
Ani, Kendra, and Dean are a group of ruthless editorial assistants
constantly competing and complaining, vying for their bosses' jobs
and a book deal before they're thirty. But trapped between Starbucks
runs, jaded gossip and endless cubicle walls, best-selling memoir
fodder is thin on the ground – that is until the action is derailed
by a shocking turn and the stakes for who will get to tell their own
story become higher than ever. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
spins a razor-sharp comic drama
about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing
that matters is moving up the ladder and selling out to the highest
bidder.
Gloria premiered in 2015 off-Broadway at the Vineyard
Theatre and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and
one of The New York Times' Best Theater Picks. The
play is regularly performed in regional repertory, college, and
community theatre productions.
Cast: 3 women, 3 men (doubling)
What people say:
"[A] whip-smart satire of fear
and loathing… Gloria is to the New York
publishing business what David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow is to the
Hollywood film industry." — The New York Times
"All you need to know is that
the bitingly funny and fierce Gloria is one of
[2015's] best shows. What playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins says
about American society, the media and how we package celebrity and
tragedy is as spot-on as it is depressing." — The
New York Post
"Sharply observant and
playfully theatrical, this thought-provoking work continues its
talented young writer's winning streak. As usual, [Branden
Jacobs-Jenkins] handles his serious themes in a thoughtful,
provocative manner…the play emerges as a trenchant commentary on
the way in which personal tragedies merely serve as grist for the
ever-ravenous media machine. A rare example of a contemporary play
that keeps us constantly guessing where it's headed, Gloria
is a work not to be easily forgotten." — The
Hollywood Reporter
About the Playwright:
Branden
Jacobs-Jenkins is an African-American playwright. He is a
two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a two-time Obie Award winner, a
MacArthur "Genius Grant" Award recipient, and was awarded
the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Theatre Award, among many
other honours.
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