18 Sept - 3 Oct
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A play that captures the absurdity of tech’s existential hand-wringing while the world burns.
The Guardian
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At times, it’s possible for an audience member at Matthew Gasda’s play Doomers to feel like a fly on the wall in a San Francisco startup 'war room
Fortune
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Doomers, a new, ripped-from-the-headlines play about the weekend that Sam Altman, the chief executive of the start-up OpenAI, was briefly fired.
The New York Times
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Doomers seizes a crucial, high-profile moment in the recent history of AI to turn it into a reflection on its future and on the collision between money, technology, power, and the dream of building a perfect world. Gasda doesn’t just dramatize corporate intrigue—he forces the audience to sit with the unsettling reality that the people shaping AI’s future may not fully grasp its consequences.
Tech Explore
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Philosophical debates, twink lust, and Silicon Valley navel-gazing—Doomers will cover it all. And just as Gasda's players staged Dimes Square in living rooms, they’re performing Doomers in tech tycoon-style apartments, offices, and galleries across New York and San Francisco, reflecting the naturalistic (if cringe) habitats of the Silicon Valley elite.
Broadway World