GLORIA
Written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Performed by BA Acting students at Arts Ed
Performed in November 2023 at the Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre (Arts Ed, Chiswick, London)
“And it was suddenly like l didn't recognize anything - or anyone -anymore including myself. Not my new self, or my old self - I did not recognize the person l 'd been for the last however many years...”
In the offices of a notorious Manhattan magazine, ruthless editorial assistants vie for their bosses’ jobs and a book deal before they’re thirty. But bestselling memoir fodder is thin on the ground, and climbing the career ladder is hard when you’re trapped between Starbucks runs, jaded gossip and endless encircling cubicle walls…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Gloria is a razor-sharp comic drama about ambition, office warfare and hierarchies, where the only thing that matters is selling out to the highest bidder.
Directed by Emily Louizou
Set & Costume Designed by Adrian Gee
Sound design & composition by Kate Marlais
Lighting Design by David Doyle
Movement by Sarah Lamb
Fight Direction by Kiefer Bryson
Photography by Robin Savage
Teaser footage by Charlie Knight
Performed as a double-bill with
More information: https://artsed.co.uk/whats-on/gloria-breathing-corpses/
