Counter-Balance Theater

Mad Madge The Guardian
“Portrait of an author ahead of her time”

Mad Madge Famous as the first female science fiction writer, Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World (1666) challenged ideas about science and women.

SHE Michelle Latiolais (New York Times notable author of She)
“Annie Loui delights in completely inhabited fictional characters and creates an entire, shattering Los Angeles for them with movement, music and projections. “

Longitude Dava Sobel’s New York Times bestseller, explores invention, engineering and obsession in the 18th c.

Longitude “CounterBalance Theater pried open the text and set every idea in motion” Dava Sobel, author Longitude

Iliad: menin (rage) Gods and goddesses come down to earth to interfere in the 9th year of the Trojan War

The Odyssey Blending contact improvisation skills with great literature 7 actors play a hundred characters, forces of nature, gods and architecture.

Elsewhere New University, "Meaning transcends speech"

The Dwarf Los Angeles Arts Examiner "Best ensemble 2013".

Jane Eyre St. Louis Post Dispatch "Jane Eyre gets a whole new spin"

A Christmas Carol OC Register "'A Christmas Carol' replete with magic"

A Christmas Carol cbslocal.com "Crown jewel of the UCI Drama Department director and choreographer Annie Loui captures the true drama and sentiment of Dickens' original work."

The Dwarf OC Weekly "Best Theatre We Never Write About 2013"

Annie Loui Known for her stunning theatrical hybrids, “Vibrant and exhilaratingly alive,” OC Weekly; Artistic Director, Annie Loui brings her physical theater sensibilities to Counter-Balance Theater.

The Dwarf Pars Lagerkvist's Nobel prize winning novel is a provocative examination of human nature and evil: war, love affairs, poisonings and Da Vinci's Last Supper.

Jane Eyre Part ghost story, part romance, part feminist novel, Jane Eyre
has enthralled for over one hundred and fifty years.

A Christmas Carol

The Dwarf OC Register "The Horrible Sin of Love"

Jane Eyre "I know no medium. I never in my life have known any
medium between absolute submission and determined revolt."