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The Story of Biddy Mason
The Story of Biddy Mason Citric Acid
“Annie Loui’s vision deepens this story”.
Madame Modjeska’s Fairytale
Madame Modjeska’s Fairytale Fringe Review
“Hidden Gem”
Madame Modjeska’s Fairytale 2020
Madame Modjeska’s Fairytale 2020 North West End UK
“Madame Modjeska’s Fairytale is a beautiful and surreal piece of theatre”
Reading Frankenstein 2019
Reading Frankenstein 2019 Fabiola Camuti, University of the Arts, NETHERLANDS
"Human -Nature-Science-Technology Interaction”
Iliad: menin (rage) – 2016
Iliad: menin (rage) – 2016 Gods and goddesses come down to earth to interfere in the 9th year of the Trojan War
The Dwarf – 2013
The Dwarf – 2013 Los Angeles Arts Examiner
"Best ensemble 2013".
Jane Eyre –2012
Jane Eyre –2012 St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Jane Eyre gets a whole new spin"
Elsewhere – 2015
Elsewhere – 2015 New University
"Meaning transcends speech"
Annie Loui
Annie Loui OC Weekly
Known for her stunning theatrical hybrids, “Vibrant and exhilaratingly alive,” Artistic Director, Annie Loui brings her physical theater sensibilities to CounterBalance Theater.
Reading Frankenstein 2019
Reading Frankenstein 2019 CRISPR can turn any living creature into something entirely new and different.
The Odyssey – 2015
The Odyssey – 2015 Blending contact improvisation skills with great literature 7 actors play a hundred characters, forces of nature, gods and architecture.
Longitude – 2017
Longitude – 2017 “CounterBalance Theater pried open the text and set every idea in motion” Dava Sobel, author Longitude
A Christmas Carol – 2014
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
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
Longitude – 2017 Dava Sobel’s New York Times bestseller, explores invention, engineering and obsession in the 18th c.
Mad Madge – 2019
Mad Madge – 2019 The Guardian
“Portrait of an author ahead of her time”
A Christmas Carol – 2014
A Christmas Carol – 2014 OC Register
"'A Christmas Carol' replete with magic"
Reading Frankenstein 2019
Reading Frankenstein 2019 When you created me we were destined for a great enterprise.
The Dwarf – 2013
The Dwarf – 2013 OC Weekly
"Best Theatre We Never Write About 2013"
Jane Eyre – 2012
Jane Eyre – 2012 Part ghost story, part romance, part feminist novel, Jane Eyre
has enthralled for over one hundred and fifty years.
She – 2018
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