Overview

With his breakout hit play Dimes Square, dramatist Matthew Gasda was instantly anointed as the chronicler of the downtown set, a satirist-cum-anthropologist of TikTok microcelebrities, reactionary edgelords, and hapless hangers-on. But what happens after the party’s over, after talent is celebrated, envied, mocked, and memed? Where do you go from there? In Zoomers and Other Plays, Gasda serves up sharply observed, richly ambivalent depictions of a perpetually hungover present. Across these four new plays—One-Winged Dove, Morning Journal, the Dimes Square sequel Afters, and the collection’s title play—spiritual longing and unbearable loss sit uneasily alongside meretriciousness and naked cruelty. Through a generational haze of pot, porn, and video games, Gasda memorably captures our era in all its glory and confusion.

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These plays were fun to read ... And I can imagine seeing them in person would be exciting, being in the same physical space as others who are hoping to push art forward. * Republic of Letters Substack *

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Matthew Gasda grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In addition to his novel The Sleepers, his dramatic works include Dimes Square, its sequel Afters, and the acclaimed play Zoomers. He is the founder and artistic director of the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research.

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