Gloria
by Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins
directed by Chris Fields
The Echo Theater Company
October 2018
Scenic Design - Amanda Knehans
Costume Design - Dianne Graebner
Lighting Design - Azra King-Abadi
Sound Design - Chris Moscatiello
Photos by Darrett Sanders
"CRITIC'S CHOICE: STUNNING… sharp-eyed dramatic intelligence… bitingly funny… a potent Echo Theater Company production”
— Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
“FUNNY AND CLEVER… BUT THERE’S SOMETHING ELSE… Mr. Jacob-Jenkins is trying to make us examine something deeper than the sensational. He’s asking us, like any great playwright, to consider how we treat one another and what we value as a culture.” — Anthony Byrnes, KCRW 89.9 FM
“RECOMMENDED… STAGE RAW TOP TEN… smartly-etched characters, caustic dialogue and a single startling surprise.” — Deborah Klugman,Stage Raw
“DEEP, NUANCED, EMOTIONAL… jacobs-Jenkins’s writing is quite subtle and smart” — Erin Conley, On Stage and Screen
"RAZOR SHARP, DARKLY COMIC… [a] biting, courageous contemplation of the ways we have conditioned ourselves to be fame-seekers… [To miss it] would be a regrettable loss ”” — Eric Gordon, People’s World
“UNFORGETTABLE… the energy's crackling electric… razor-sharp disses and truthful observations” — Gil Kaan, Broadway World
“WOW!... Chris Field directs Gloria’s West Coast Premiere with precision, power, and lickety-split pacing, and the performances he elicits are some of the very best in town… Echo Theater Company at its most excitingly cutting-edge.” — Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA
“RIVETING… As Echo's work creates more and more echoes in the LA theater, its artistic director Chris Fields stages "Gloria" flawlessly.” — Don Shirley, LA Observed
“[A] KNOCKOUT… unsettling, shocking and funny… thought-provoking, gut-churning, blood-pounding theater” — Tony Frankel. Stage and Cinema
“EVERY BIT AS VICIOUS AS IT IS HILARIOUS… a remarkable ensemble… yet another pitch-perfect production from the Echo Theater Company.” — Michael Van Duzer, Showmag
“NEVER-ENDING WIT AND BITING CULTURAL COMMENTARY… gifts the cast with such cleverly crafted, multifaceted monologues, arias if you will, effectively orchestrated by Fields” — Aja Houston, USC Annenberg Media
“DIALOGUE AND CHARACTERS THAT SIZZLE” — Michael Sheehan, On Stage Los Angeles