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    Gloria (TCG Edition)
    Gloria (TCG Edition)
    Gloria (TCG Edition)
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    Gloria (TCG Edition)

    By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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    • World premiere at the Vineyard Theatre (Off Broadway, New York) in the spring of 2015, as a part of Jacobs-Jenkins’ residency at the theatre

    • Subsequent production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in the winter of 2017

    • Named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

    • Selected as a Time Out New York and New York Times Critics’ Pick

    • Jacobs-Jenkins received the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for his plays Appropriate and An Octoroon

    • He received the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (Drama) at Yale University in 2016

    • He received the 2016 PEN/Laura Pels Award, Emerging American Playwright
    In 2011, he received the Helen Merrill Award in Playwriting -- Emerging Playwright category, and the Paula Vogel Award from the Vineyard Theatre

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTheatre Communications Group
    Release dateAug 25, 2020
    ISBN9781559368667
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    Book preview

    Gloria (TCG Edition) - Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

    ACT ONE

    A cluster of four cubicles.

    An upstage cubicle hides Miles, the intern, who wears headphones and does something menial and unseen.

    Another cubicle is occupied by Ani, who is in the process of printing something and preparing for her day.

    The other cubicles are empty.

    Upstage of the cubicles are offices enclosed in frosted glass. Other offices may be implied downstage.

    As Miles and Ani work, the Gloria section of Bach’s Mass in B Minor plays. The rhythm of Miles and Ani’s working seems to coincide with the music.

    At some point, a printer somewhere starts churning, beeps, then stops. Ani notices. She tries to get Miles’s attention, but can barely be heard over the music.

    ANI: Miles?

    (No answer.)

    Miles? … Miles? (Pokes her head over the divider) Miles!

    (Miles notices her, takes off his headphones, the song cuts out.)

    MILES: Yep?

    ANI: I think the printer is out of / paper. Could you—

    MILES: Oh yeah. No problem.

    (Miles gets up and exits to an offstage supply closet, leaving Ani onstage working for a bit before her phone rings. She answers.)

    ANI: Good morning. Arthur Kimble’s office … Yes, one second … (Presses buttons, transferring the call) Hey—I have Jonah on the line … Okay, great.

    (Ani transfers the call as Dean rushes in with his man-bag, looking generally like a mess. He starts getting situated in his cubicle.)

    It’s 10:48.

    DEAN: Shut up. I still beat Kendra.

    ANI: Are you hungover?

    DEAN: What do you think?

    ANI: Where were you last night?

    DEAN: Gloria’s housewarming.

    ANI: Wait—you actually went?

    DEAN: I thought we all were going! Why didn’t you text me back?

    ANI: Oh no! I thought we were joking!

    DEAN: How would me texting you are you coming to Gloria’s even be a joke?!

    ANI: I totally thought you were texting me as if you were actually at the party but you really weren’t.

    DEAN: Why would I ever do that, Ani!?

    ANI: I don’t know—it just seems like something you would do! I was never going to go to Gloria’s. She’s, like, an emotional terrorist.

    DEAN: Yeah, well, once I showed up last night and realized I was the only idiot who came, I had to drink enough to forget I was there, so, for the record, the way I feel is sort of your

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