Icky Modernism (ft. Matthew Gasda and Christian Lorentzen)

Our Struggle

Thursday night, a living room in upper Manhattan. Two podcasters - a wayward English teacher (Andrew Ohringer) and a sardonic nanny (Lauren Teixeira) -- have invited their friend, a young playwright recently arrived from Flatbush (Matthew Gasda), onto their show to discuss his new underground hit play "Dimes Square," a razor-sharp send-up of contemporary New York bohemian life. The playwright is on this evening accompanied by two of his actors: his muse (Cassidy O'Grady) and a volatile moonlighting literary critic (Christian Lorentzen) who engages the English teacher's mysterious roommate (Mason). Fernet flows, ambient degeneracy simmers and soon enough the ramshackle sextet find themselves recreating rather than explicating "Dimes Square."