ABOUT:
PAN PAN and Gina Moxley present
The Patient Gloria by Gina Moxley
THE BLACK BOX
€20*/18*
California 1964.
A nine year old girl, Pammy, asks, “Mommy, did you ever go to bed with anyone besides daddy?” The child’s mother, Gloria, recently divorced and uncomfortable with her sexual desire, lies “No, honey''
Gloria later wrote in her diary “What was I supposed to say? Of course dear, everyone does? Oh shit.”
This exchange became central to the 1965 films Three Approaches to Psychotherapy or The Gloria Films. The project was the idea of psychotherapist Dr Everett Shostrum, who directed and produced, enlisting three eminent psychotherapists to work with a thirty year old, chain smoking, loquacious divorcee named Gloria.
His avowed intention was to show the films to college psychology students to give them an insight into what's usually a private process but he subsequently released the films in cinemas and on TV, betraying the privacy of the patient Gloria.
A punky mash up of re-enactment, actual footage and lived experience, The Patient Gloria is a gloriously ballsy meditation on therapy, misogyny and female desire. And it grabs psychotherapy where it really hurts.
Selected press quotes:
Winner of Scotsman Fringe First Award & Herald Angel Award
★★★★ “Bold, brilliant and highly original.”
– The Scotsman
★★★★ “Grabs psychiatry by the balls.”
– Fest Magazine
“Rebellious… playful… deliciously arch grade of satire”
– New York Times (Critic’s Pick)
“An indelible stage picture I won’t forget soon.”
– The New Yorker
Credits:
Cast: Gina Moxley, Liv O’Donoghue, Jane Deasy
Writer: Gina Moxley
Director: John McIlduff
Choreographer: Liv O'Donoghue
Set Design: Andrew Clancy
Costume Design: Sarah Bacon
Sound Design: Adam Welsh
Lighting Design: Sinéad Wallace
AV Design: Conan McIvor
Executive Producer: Tríona Ní Dhuibhir
Producer: Emma Coen
Supported by the Arts Council and Culture Ireland
12 +
Contains sexual themes and images, strong language, haze, loud noises.
DATES & TIMES:
26th April | 8PM | 75 mins, no interval
