WOW! Presents Glorious

Gloria is a young, seemingly naïve bored socialite. One night she meets Jimmy, a would-be writer moonlighting as a waiter at her rich father’s birthday party. To annoy her father she hooks up with him in his dingy apartment.
But is Gloria all she seems? And what are Jimmy’s real motives?
Like Hepburn and Tracey in The Philadelphia Story, Glorious is a quick fire, screwball comedy about two people who hate each other, but who are drawn into a sexy and mysterious affair.

Glorious is based upon the ‘Screwball Comedy’ genre that mixed social commentary of the times with a dash of good ol’ slapstick and fun. Most notable films were Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby, and Tracy and Hepburn in Woman of the Year. They were the basis for the modern romantic-comedies from the films of Astaire and Rogers to The Proposal. Classic screwball often shows reverse class snobbery, to be poor is somehow to be more noble. What’s more, to be rich is to be castigated, passions befitting theater patrons, during the Great Depression. Screwball demonstrates a skillful blend of sophistication and slapstick. A well written script, laced with barbed dialogue, an overlapping style of delivery, with lines tossed off in rapid fire.

Playwright Richard Huber is an exciting local writer who has created this tightly scripted comedy. Richard has recently become a client of Playmarket, and has created many plays for stage including a film noir piece, The Dangerous Wife and Bruised a Joycean monologue. Both these works were performed at the Fortune Studio and the Court Theatre in 2002.

Richard recently wrote and directed the script for the Son et Lumiere performed at First Church to mark the anniversary of Calvinism in New Zealand. Glorious was selected for Write Out Loud in 2008 and was short-listed for Playmarket’s New Play Award in 2009.

Glorious is brought to you by WoW! Productions, in association with The Fortune Theatre. WoW! Productions has been a supporter of New Zealand work for well over a decade, having commissioned Gary Henderson to write Lines of Fire in 2006, premiered Hairway to Heaven by Sarah McDougall in 2007,and having successful productions of Cherish by Ken Duncum and more recently The Cape by Vivienne Plumb.
WoW! is thrilled to be collaborating with The Fortune Theatre on this production and is excited to bring local, quality theatre to a Dunedin audience.

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