Course Description
Summary
This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.
"These are people you can imagine being perfectly agreeable at home with their families. But at work, they become the fierce, feral creatures they need to be, even if they don鈥檛 realize it. Rat races, after all, can鈥檛 exist without rats鈥︹ 鈥擭ew York Times
The approximately 90-minute play will perform the weekend prior to Thanksgiving (Nov. 19-21). This 4-credit course is for the cast, or others assigned production responsibilities, and represents work both in and out of rehearsals necessary to build a successful performance and/or collaboration in production. Rehearsals, tech, and performance constitute each students鈥 commitment.
Gloria was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
