Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Gina Moxley 

• Adapted From Notes

  Adapted from the Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, also known as The Gloria Films (1965). 

• Achoimre

  1964, California. A nine year old girl, Pammy, asks the question, “Mommy, did you ever go to bed with anyone besides daddy?” The child’s mother, Gloria, recently divorced and struggling with her new single status, lies “No, honey.” Gloria later wrote in her diary “What was I supposed to say? Of course, dear. Everyone does? Oh shit.”

  Gloria’s discomfort with her own sexual desire, her trying to be good but wanting to be bad, became central to the 1965 films Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, also known as The Gloria Films. The films were intended for academic purposes but given a cinema and TV release, betraying the privacy of the patient Gloria.

  This is a meditation on female desire in a new political context where misogyny is the winning ticket. Things could get messy. Very messy indeed.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Female

  3

• Total

  3

• Eolas Faoin bhFoireann

  The original production also featured a chorus of five 'Young Women of Ireland'.

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  29 September 2018

• Nótaí faoin Léiriú

  Produced by The Abbey Theatre and Gina Moxley in association with Pan Pan as part of Dublin Theatre Festival. 

• Leiriú

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach In association with Pan Pan

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Nótaí faoin Ionad

  Performed on the Peacock Stage. 

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from the play's original production programme.