Gloria (Tcg Edition) (Paperback)

“Gloria…is to the New York publishing business what David Mamet&;s Speed-the-Plow is to the Hollywood film industry.&; — New York Times

“A rare example of a contemporary play that keeps us constantly guessing where it's headed, Gloria is a work not to be easily forgotten.&; —Hollywood Reporter

With a sharp eye for the dark underbelly of human behavior, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins&; new play Gloria shrewdly depicts the declining, dog-eat-dog industry of publishing in New York City. As an unnamed magazine struggles with the world&;s encroaching descent into the digital age, the human relationships within simultaneously implode. Ani, Kendra, and Dean are the sparring, sharp-tongued assistant editors, constantly competing and complaining, vying over power and a better position. Governed by ferocious wit and corrosive dialogue, these characters spend most of the first act sniping at one another and finding ways to ignore their industry&;s impending doom…until, true to Jacobs-Jenkins fashion, the action is derailed by a shocking turn.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins&; plays include An Octoroon, Neighbors, Appropriate, and War. Gloria was named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He is a playwright-in-residence at Signature Theatre. He received the 2014 Obie Award for Best New American Play for both An Octoroon and Appropriate, the 2015 Steinberg Playwrights Award, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2016.

A Pulitzer Prize-nominated satire on power and desperation from the award-winning playwright of An Octoroon