Gloria

Text of the day: “If you had half a brain, you’d look around and see everyone in charge is pushing sixty, or just past it and they’re not going anywhere and they are certainly not thinking about you. These postwar glutton-babies were spoiled on the riches of being an American when being an American was basically the Best and also, by freak chance, just happened to discover New York when it, too, was also the Best and apartments were like a dollar.” (Kendra in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Gloria)

American culture American Dream American playwriting babyboomers Branden Jacobs-Jenkins generational conflict Gloria Hampstead Theatre New York