Over the Moon renders the present with an eye toward the timeless
Audiences are hard to please. Give us too much of modern life in a work of art, and we find it shallow. Give us too little, and we are prone to call it stuffy and academic. There is a sweet spot between realist exposé and classically restrained theater. This is the case with Over the Moon, a new play written and directed by Matthew Gasda. In the witty, self-undercutting, and absurdly clinical language that is the contemporary speech of the young, the play’s Generation Z and millennial protagonists navigate the confusing vagaries of love. The action remains in one place: the shared uptown Manhattan apartment of 20-something cousins Eden (Lilly Brown) and Cody (Spencer Cramer). They recently moved in together after breaking up with their boyfriends.
