Sixteen-year-old Logan has a lot going for him––his first girlfriend, big wins on the lacrosse field, a likely scholarship to Yale––but when mounting pressures lead him to seek guidance in the alt-right manosphere, the adults in his life are all too busy to notice. As his elder sister, her spouse, and their roommate navigate shared secrets and a particularly violent neighborhood dog named Cupcake, Logan’s mentality deteriorates in the foreground, explored in an abstracted space called “the turf.” When his radicalization reaches a boiling point, who will be able - or willing – to help him? A play about what makes a good dog go bad, and whether or not they can learn new tricks.
