Advanced Persistent Teenagers

by Deepak Kumar

Axyz and Lapras are two extraordinarily talented teenage boys who spend their days gabbing on voice chat, dunking on their peers, and hacking children’s video games for fun and profit. When their hacker collective abruptly disbands, the two are left unmoored. Axyz wants to start a new hacker group and establish ultimate dominance in the hacker scene. Lapras is content tinkering with weird hacks while toiling...

Axyz and Lapras are two extraordinarily talented teenage boys who spend their days gabbing on voice chat, dunking on their peers, and hacking children’s video games for fun and profit. When their hacker collective abruptly disbands, the two are left unmoored. Axyz wants to start a new hacker group and establish ultimate dominance in the hacker scene. Lapras is content tinkering with weird hacks while toiling away as a technical service agent at Geek Squad. Both are existentially unfulfilled. ADVANCED PERSISTENT TEENAGERS is a play about loneliness, connection, and trying to find agency and meaning as a young person in today's America. A commission from Audible.

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  • Zach Barr: Advanced Persistent Teenagers by Deepak Kumar
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    WATCHED AT 2026 PACIFIC PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
    At the heart of Kumar's furiously well-written script is a question of how we self-define: through systems designed to dehumanize, or by dehumanizing ourselves? There is an electric energy that drives the play's loud moments (many) and its quiet ones (few, all earned). Ax and Lap make compelling anti-heroes, with goals that audiences can easily root for even as the pit in their stomach grows, the deeper and hungrier and more desperate the story gets.

    WATCHED AT 2026 PACIFIC PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
    At the heart of Kumar's furiously well-written script is a question of how we self-define: through systems designed to dehumanize, or by dehumanizing ourselves? There is an electric energy that drives the play's loud moments (many) and its quiet ones (few, all earned). Ax and Lap make compelling anti-heroes, with goals that audiences can easily root for even as the pit in their stomach grows, the deeper and hungrier and more desperate the story gets.

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Character Information

  • Axyz
    18
    Male
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      Teens,
      20s
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Man
  • Lapras
    19
    Male
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      Teens,
      20s
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Man