Description

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword by David Levine

Zoomers
Morning Journal
One-Winged Dove
Afters

Afterword by Mike Crumplar

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 04 Sep 2025
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 288
ISBN 9798765161234
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Matthew Gasda

Matthew Gasda grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.…

Introduction

David Levine

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