My Dimes Square Think Piece

Dimes Square (the revival) is introduced as a period piece, both at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research and in the preliminary murmurs I hear about the return of this play. It's an absurd concept at face value. The play was written and first performed in 2022; capturing a time in New York right after covid and still full of Covid-era restrictions—an era ripe with living room parties, small “r” rebellion, and big “a” Ambitions. It wasn't all that long ago. The changes in culture since, arguably, are perceptible only through the lens of the microscopic or the self-indulgent: the loss of friendship, the loss of a local haunt, the loss of whimsy and bohemia and the shattering of an illusion that you were on the precipice of something.You might, from such a vantage point, get the sense that everything has changed over the course of a few short years. Cast your gaze forward a century or back a few decades, and you realize that everything is more or less? the same.