Zoomers and Other Plays [Paperback]

With his breakout hit playDimes 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?

InZoomers 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,theDimes SquaresequelAfters, 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.

Four plays from acclaimed playwright and downtown impresario Matthew Gasda.Matthew Gasdagrew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In addition to his novelThe Sleepers,his dramatic works includeDimes Square, its sequelAfters, and the acclaimed playZoomers. He is the founder and artistic director of the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research.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

Foreword by David Levine

Zoomers
Morning Journal
One-Winged Dove
Afters

Afterword by Mike Crumplar