Description: This collection contains the plays Dimes Square, Quartet, Berlin Story, and Minotaur by dramatist Matthew Gasda, following his meteoric rise in New York's downtown scene.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes:
""Gasda has a deft, humorous touch and a rare talent for steering large numbers of characters."" --Vulture
"The plays never feel self-indulgent or claustrophobic. Instead, they are intelligent, light-footed, and witty ... Essential to Gasda's work is its willingness to skate in the direction of thin ice." --First Things "Gasda has an ear for repartee as sharp as Henri Cartier-Bresson's eye for immortalizing the 'decisive moment' in a photograph." --The Millions "Matt Gasda is such an incisive playwright, I hesitate to chuck more adjectives in his direction--what if they're the wrong ones? His work is funny and lovely and human in the best way. Perhaps we are, as Nate from Dimes Square says, 'living through the dumbest time in human history, ' but here are four retorts." --Sloane Crosley, author of Cult Classic and I Was Told There'd Be Cake ""Life and art tangle stickily together in these plays. Gasda holds a powder-smudged mirror up to our self-obsessed age."" --Matthieu Aikins, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Naked Don't Fear the Water ""Attending one of Matt Gasda's plays in the homemade theaters he finds across town, I feel like I'm part of his dark, funny visions of bohemia; and I feel very inspired to write more and be more ambitious, and I'm reminded of how stories can change your experience of life, how you can live your life as though it were a play, and create your own character, and write your own fortune." --Dean Kissick ""As a comedy of manners, [Dimes Square]is as good as it gets ... It's a generational snapshot--someone had to do it, and at least it's someone who knows how to write."" --Spike ""Decadent and delicious."" --The Last Estate "What preserves [Dimes Square] from triviality (and, more damningly, from being boring) and elevates it to excellence is that, though this may be how things are, this is not how they should be." --Dappled Things