The Patient Gloria

UK premiere | Gina Moxley and Abbey Theatre in association with Pan Pan Theatre Company By Gina Moxley

4 Stars

Shrinks take the rap in waywardly funny drama.

The Guardian
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4 Stars

Shrinks take the rap in waywardly funny drama.

The Guardian

About

The Patient Gloria wowed audiences at the Abbey Theatre during its sold-out world premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival.

Inspired by the 1965 films Three Approaches To Psychotherapy (The Gloria films), this provocative and upfront meditation on therapy and female desire in a new political context where misogyny is the winning ticket is a mash up of re-enactment, real footage, lived experience and a punk gig.

An experimental extravaganza featuring ‘the bawdiest performance of the year’ (Exeunt Magazine), The Patient Gloria is ‘very funny, very explicit and very sobering’ (Sunday Independent). And therapeutic. It’s very therapeutic.

Winner: 2019 Scotsman Fringe First award
Winner: 2019 Herald Angel award

Supported by Culture Ireland.

Image: Lara Cappelli


★★★★ Independent
★★★★ The Stage
★★★★ The Skinny
★★★★ The Wee Review
★★★★ Fest Magazine
★★★★ Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
★★★★ A Younger Theatre
★★★★ Across the Arts

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  • 4 Stars

    Shrinks take the rap in waywardly funny drama.

    The Guardian

  • 4 Stars

    A bold, brilliant and highly original piece... to say something bigger about the way women are policed and controlled, but also fight back.

  • 4 Stars

    Grabs psychiatry by the balls… G-L-O-R-I-OUS.

  • 4 Stars

    Cathartic and anarchic.

  • 4 Stars

    Theatrical stamping of patriarchal structures.

  • 4 Stars

    All whimsical and zany with a scathing edge.

  • 4 Stars

    Unbridled piece of dramatic syncopation... affirming and brazenly defiant.

  • 4 Stars

    An explosive commentary on the nature of female desire... irreverent and funny and flippant and sad.

  • 4 Stars

    Gina Moxley’s intricate, impish work.

  • 4 Stars

    The play is a rallying call for women to be themselves, embrace their sexuality and live a better life.

  • 4 Stars

    A deliciously ribald non-stop erotic cabaret of third wave feminism.

  • 4 Stars

    Intelligent and funny… a tremendous production that moves as much as it provokes thought.

  • The bawdiest performance this year.

    Exeunt Magazine

  • Very funny, very explicit and very sobering.

    Sunday Independent

  • The Patient Gloria plays directly to the third wave of feminism’s gallery.

    The Arts Review

Credits

  • WriterGina Moxley
  • DirectorJohn McIlduff
  • Set DesignerAndrew Clancy
  • Costume DesignerSarah Bacon
  • Sound DesignerAdam Welsh
  • Lighting DesignerSinead Wallace
  • AV DesignerConan McIvor
  • CastGina Moxley, Liv O’Donoghue, Jane Deasy

Behind the Scenes

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