This Is Our Youth
by Kenneth Lonergan

Broadway Off-Broadway West End
This Is Our Youth Book Cover
This Is Our Youth Cover

Highlights

120 mins 1980s Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American

Awards & Recognition

Lucille Lortel Award Tony Award

Winner! One 1997 Lucille Lortel Award Winner! One 1999 Lucille Lortel Award Nominee: 2015 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play

Synopsis

THE STORY: In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the wealthy, articulate pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the '60s have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to b

Press Reviews

"The playwright has unfailing antennae for the crude folkways of this dissolute urban tribe, whose customs revolve around drug dealing, scamming their uninterested parents and recreating their broken homes in their dysfunctional friendships. These are the disposable offspring of the elite, as wired and drifting in their way as the lowlife juvenile delinquents caught in the klieg lights of Cops. The major difference is these articulate sociopaths in training can talk their way out of trouble, and, if all else fails, their folks will surely find it in their hearts to get them good lawyers."

— The New York Times

"Lonergan, whose ear for the way his characters speak is pitch-perfect, is no less attuned to the simmering potential in their silent hearts."

— Variety

Characters

Character
Warren Straub

19 years old

Jessica Goldman

19 years old

Dennis Ziegler

21 years old

Videos

This is Our Youth – 2014 Broadway Production Highlights

Publication

Year 1999
Binding Paperback
Edition 34739th
Pages 72
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822217039
ISBN-10 0822217031
LCCN 2006455565
LCC PS3562.O4886 T47 1999

This Is Our Youth is a American play written by Kenneth Lonergan and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (1999).

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