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The Patient Gloria

A scene from The Patient Gloria.

Nov 16 – Dec 4, 2022
45 Water Street Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States

In 1965, when psychoanalysis was still new in America, the psychotherapist Everett L. Shostrom made a three-part series of training films called Three Approaches to Psychotherapy. While the camera runs, three male analysts, in three different films, each treat a recent divorcee named Gloria. In The Patient Gloria, Gina Moxley brings a feminist spin to the proceedings, along with interludes of interpretive dance. Re-enacting those training films, Gloria is now the star of the show, not a passive patient. A wow at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Patient Gloria has its U.S. premiere at St. Ann’s Warehouse. —Jensen Davis

Photo: Lara Cappelli