17 July 2017. Gloria at Hampstead Theatre.

I was encouraged to get a ticket by its great reviews. However, I came away feeling that I had had an entertaining evening but one with no lasting effect. In the first half, we have a group of youngish workers in a magazine all vying with each other and back-biting. It feels as if it is going nowhere. Then a spurned colleague flips and shoots most of them and herself. The second half is various stages into the future where three of the survivors vie to publish their memoir of the fateful event. And that, for me, was that. Of course, some people's shallowness is well presented - but does it need a play to point that out?