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'I saw the wrong cast in the wrong play at the wrong theatre. The Gloria I saw was nothing like that. If only I had seen the play Lee Lewis wrote about instead of the one she directed.' (Introduction)

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  • Epigraph:

    Gloria may well be a love song to the great women who act on our stages, who we call upon to embody the imaginative state of our nation. But the play is also a symptom of the time we are in—a greedy time, a selfish, self-centred, vain, fearful, frantic, unstable time in which we cling so hard to anything that can make us feel connected to other people, anything that can feel real. Gloria is not a portrait of an actor, it is a portrait of us, one we are desperately trying to deny. Sometimes it takes an Australian on the other side of the planet [expatriate director and writer Benedict Andrews] to see us for what we are becoming. —Lee Lewis

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    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 60 no. 12 December 2016 10727243 2016 periodical issue 2016 pg. 96-98
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  • Gloria Benedict Andrews , 2016 single work drama
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