CounterBalance Theater

Reading Frankenstein 2019 When you created me we were destined for a great enterprise.

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Iliad: menin (rage) – 2016 Gods and goddesses come down to earth to interfere in the 9th year of the Trojan War

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

Jane Eyre –2012 St. Louis Post Dispatch "Jane Eyre gets a whole new spin"

Elsewhere – 2015 New University, "Meaning transcends speech"

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

Reading Frankenstein 2019 CRISPR can turn any living creature into something entirely new and different.

The Odyssey – 2015 Blending contact improvisation skills with great literature 7 actors play a hundred characters, forces of nature, gods and architecture.

Longitude – 2017 “CounterBalance Theater pried open the text and set every idea in motion” Dava Sobel, author Longitude

A Christmas Carol – 2014 cbslocal.com "Crown jewel of the UCI Drama Department director and choreographer Annie Loui captures the true drama and sentiment of Dickens' original work."

Mad Madge – 2019 Famous as the first female science fiction writer, Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World (1666) challenged ideas about science and women.

Longitude – 2017 Dava Sobel’s New York Times bestseller, explores invention, engineering and obsession in the 18th c.

Mad Madge – 2019 The Guardian
“Portrait of an author ahead of her time”

A Christmas Carol – 2014 OC Register "'A Christmas Carol' replete with magic"

Reading Frankenstein 2019 Did I request thee Maker, from my clay to mould me man?

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

Jane Eyre – 2012 Part ghost story, part romance, part feminist novel, Jane Eyre
has enthralled for over one hundred and fifty years.

She – 2018 “I was inordinately happy to hand the book over to the incandescently talented Annie Loui and her cast." Michelle Latiolais, author of She