Gloria

Update: 5/16/25: Since it had been over 5 years since my last reading, and Jacobs-Jenkins just won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his latest play, Purpose, I wanted to revisit this, the play for which he was first nominated for the award in 2016. It still reads like gangbusters, and I have come to......more

What stuck out to me the most in reading this was the use of double-casting. BJJ's acknowledgement of the familiarity of these characters encouraged me to interpret this as a universal story, which, in post-Columbine America, it truly is. The plight of interns and assistants stuck in day jobs that p......more

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from this work. Perhaps the best one is that if you happen to write a play that gives voice to a younger generation in the workforce in an incisive, comedic, and piteous way that is quintessential to our collective experience of the everyday and of trauma, DON......more

Rating in terms of how well “Gloria” represents my girlfriend Gloria: ⭐️works at a magazine (newspaper) ⭐️packs elaborate lunches in Tupperwares ⭐️gets upset about people flaking on her plans ❌commits a mass shooting ❌unloved (Gloria my gf is widely beloved) I liked this play! The millennial cattiness......more

Scorcher of a first act with characters who completely scratch and tear at one another. Second act loses some of that fun/hilarious steam in search of deeper meaning around ownership of narratives/office culture in the age of the internet. I kinda liked the fun of the first act better, but it’s shar......more