That's Fucked Up

by Zack Peercy

FULL LENGTH: Four college students at their monthly meeting of a truth-circle confessional struggle to navigate the honesty of meaningful relationships. This "real time" 100-minute show explores 21st century relationships and the impact technology has on them. It's quiet, it's casual, and it's pretty fucked up.

FULL LENGTH: Four college students at their monthly meeting of a truth-circle confessional struggle to navigate the honesty of meaningful relationships. This "real time" 100-minute show explores 21st century relationships and the impact technology has on them. It's quiet, it's casual, and it's pretty fucked up.

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  • Nick Malakhow: That's Fucked Up

    A briskly-moving and compelling piece that is equal parts hilarious, disturbing, and wrenching. Peercy renders here an unsettling, toxic relationship between four friends that examines their loneliness and alienation, struggles with mental health, and disconnect from society, joy, and other human beings. The collegiate setting is perfect--these characters' struggles with their identities and relationships really illustrate that troubling coming-of-adult-age moment when one needs to come to terms with their responsibility and relationship to their own mental and emotional wellbeing. I was...

    A briskly-moving and compelling piece that is equal parts hilarious, disturbing, and wrenching. Peercy renders here an unsettling, toxic relationship between four friends that examines their loneliness and alienation, struggles with mental health, and disconnect from society, joy, and other human beings. The collegiate setting is perfect--these characters' struggles with their identities and relationships really illustrate that troubling coming-of-adult-age moment when one needs to come to terms with their responsibility and relationship to their own mental and emotional wellbeing. I was impressed at how these characters, who do and say some highly troubling things, remain multi-dimensional and sympathetically-drawn.

  • Drew Freeman: That's Fucked Up

    Such a realistic, and articulate piece, focusing on strong and specific college aged, "coming of age" characters who often fail to articulate their own feelings. In, "That's Fucked Up", Peercy excels in telling a captivating and honest story about struggling emotions, hatred, love, relationships and more. All of the elements of a great play are here, present and active. I would recommend this play to anyone who enjoys intelligent flowing dialogue, complex characters, and just plays in general. Read it.

    Such a realistic, and articulate piece, focusing on strong and specific college aged, "coming of age" characters who often fail to articulate their own feelings. In, "That's Fucked Up", Peercy excels in telling a captivating and honest story about struggling emotions, hatred, love, relationships and more. All of the elements of a great play are here, present and active. I would recommend this play to anyone who enjoys intelligent flowing dialogue, complex characters, and just plays in general. Read it.

  • Ben Braun: That's Fucked Up

    Peercy has managed to examine post-iPhone paranoia and millennial anxiety in a poignant, often terrifying, exploration of college relationships. Focusing mostly on the distinction between online persona vs. reality and the limits of self-care, "That's Fucked Up" serves as one of the first plays to tackle an un-romanticized look at living in your 20s in a--dare I say--postmodern society and how social media has the potential to unite us as well as tear us apart. I recommend this show for production highly for it's complex characters, great scene studies, and compelling dialogue.

    Peercy has managed to examine post-iPhone paranoia and millennial anxiety in a poignant, often terrifying, exploration of college relationships. Focusing mostly on the distinction between online persona vs. reality and the limits of self-care, "That's Fucked Up" serves as one of the first plays to tackle an un-romanticized look at living in your 20s in a--dare I say--postmodern society and how social media has the potential to unite us as well as tear us apart. I recommend this show for production highly for it's complex characters, great scene studies, and compelling dialogue.

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Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Broken Bell Reads, Year 2019
  • Type Residency, Organization Three Brothers Theatre, Year 2018

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization The Apartment Showcase, Year 2020
  • Type Professional, Organization Three Brothers Theatre, Year 2019