THE PATIENT GLORIA AT St. Ann"s Warehouse

THE PATIENT GLORIA by Gina Moxley; Directed by John McIlduff; Producer: Emma Coen

With: Gina Moxley, Liv O'Donoghue, Jane Deasy

A divorced woman named Gloria gave permission to be treated and filmed by three well established

psychotherapist in three different session with the promise that the film will be only for training

 purposes,  but they broke that promise and eventually put it on Television.

 The Patient Gloria is based on that film. 

The film was called, "Three approaches of psychotherapy."

 Gina Moxley plays all the psychotherapists,

 with her own twisted and hilarious take and performance.

Before tha play begins, she is sitting and sewing something which reveals itself as a penis, actually three

 different kinds,  for three different therapists.  This approach is hilarious for a while but eventually

 become redundant and loses the fun it evoked in the very beginning but Moxely is a great performer

 and still commands the stage.

She herself explains that in her real life in Ireland as a young women she was always told that sex is

 never enjoyable but it's actually violent and relates her experiences of men exposing themselves to her

 and in one of her depiction of the psychologist she just goes right in between the legs of her patient

 Gloria and magically disappears from the couch. That is an amazing bit. Liv O'Donoghue as Gloria

 is quite effective, confused, anxiety stricken, believig in her therapist, revealing her most private

 thoughts to therapists who are non-serious with many problems of their own and un-knowingly become

 caricatures of themselves.

 The play is very much a satire about psychoanalysis.

 Jane Deasy is energetic and plays, electric guitar and sings songs such as.,"In my room" and "Shitlist"

which are quite enjoyable. She also did the choreography. Moxley as a therapist tell Gloria that if any

 one has one disability, such as having a mangled arm should not dislike all her other normal body parts

 and must admire her person as a whole. She brilliantly displays her make believe mangled arm in such a

 brilliant manner that it becomes one of the best scene in the play.   As a whole the play is very

 enjoyable, maybe not for everyone but I imagine it must have been a riot in Ireland.