Doomers by Matthew Gasda
Theatre

Doomers by Matthew Gasda

NSW

Tickets $39.50 - $59.50

01 - 30 Sep | 1 hour 35 minutes Tom Mann Theatre
Two80 Cabaret
SHOW IS RATED: M

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About this event
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 Sep
Between 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.

Show details
  • 01 - 30 Sep | 1 hour 35 minutes
  • Venue 1: Tom Mann Theatre
  • Venue 2: Two80 Cabaret
Performance notes
  • Australian Premiere
  • Content warnings: Coarse Language
  • Performance accessibility:
    Tuesday 30 Sep
  • Performance accessibility:
    Monday 29 Sep
  • Performance accessibility:
    Tuesday 9 Sep
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Venue details & accessibility
Tom Mann Theatre

136 Chalmers St, Surry Hills 2010 (Gadigal Country)
Telephone: (02) 9310 3111

Accessibility
Two80 Cabaret

280 Cleveland Street, Surry Hills 2010 (Gadigal Country)
Telephone: 0431392403

Accessibility

Access Notes:
Side doors to tables

Credits
  • DIRECTOR – Victoria Lenehan
  • WRITER – Matthew Gasda
  • PRODUCER – Aubrey Naur
  • RICHARD – Andy Ostojic
  • ELI – Apollo Storm
  • SETH – Ben B
  • JEFF – Bryson
  • ALINA – Claude Ivery
  • SANJAY – Shanel Dilip
  • MEI – Leilani Faasisila
  • HARRIET – Samantha Goldrick
  • CHARLIE – Richie Clarke
  • MYRA – Sally W
  • MARKETING ASSISTANT – Ziggy Tow
  • SCENERY AND PROPS – Olivia Joan

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