Orange Curtain Review
“inspired design, movement and direction”.
– Patrick Chavis, 5/6/2025
© 2025 UC Regents, all rights reserved. Photo by Jeanine Hill.

Citric Acid
“Annie Loui’s vision deepens this story”.

Fringe Review
“Hidden Gem”

“Exceptional show! …Through a banquet of light, projection and movement, the tale as old as time feels a little newer and surprisingly darker.”
– Patrick Chavis, Orange Curtain Review 5/6/25
© 2025 UC Regents, all rights reserved. Photo by Jeanine Hill.

North West End UK
“Madame Modjeska’s Fairytale is a beautiful and surreal piece of theatre”

Fabiola Camuti, University of the Arts, NETHERLANDS
"Human -Nature-Science-Technology Interaction”

Gods and goddesses come down to earth to interfere in the 9th year of the Trojan War

Los Angeles Arts Examiner
"Best ensemble 2013".

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

New University
"Meaning transcends speech"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

OC Weekly
"Best Theatre We Never Write About 2013"

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

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