A visionary is ousted, the board is panicking, and the future is already here. Definitely not based on real events.
Set in the not-so-distant past — 2023, when the AI takeover was still speculative, not inevitable — Doomers is a two-act corporate psychodrama about messianic founders, money cults, and the delusions of control. It already feels retro.Two acts. Two San Francisco luxury apartments. Two war rooms. Happening simultaneously.In one: the founder of a fictional AI company — bratty, worshipped, and feared — plots his revenge with an inner circle of advisors and true believers.In the other: a boardroom of Substack writers, ex-CIA operatives, Zoomer coders, and corporate Judases scramble to enjoy their final hours of power, knowing you can’t actually fire a founder. (Remember when Apple fired Steve Jobs in the ’80s?)Rumour has it Matt Gasda wrote Doomers as a sequel to Zoomers. Or maybe, embedded in the feedback loop of bicoastal messianism, tech eschatology, and art-world clout, he wrote it to get rich tech guys to fund the arts. If that was the plan, it worked — the audience was full of them.Gasda gets it. That’s why tech bros from major companies came to Doomers in New York and San Francisco and said: “Yeah, that’s scarily accurate.”Doomers gives human proportions to the technocratic sublime. And it's coming down under.Panel Event – Sat 7 SepBetween matinee and evening shows, join a panel of tech insiders, strategists, and academics as they unpack how AI is reshaping Australia’s creative industries — from screen to stage, design to discourse.Free with your matinee ticket.
