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This Is Our Youth is a play by American dramatist and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan. It premiered Off-Broadway in 1996 and since been produced all over the world, including the West End, Broadway, Sydney and Toronto.
- Kenneth Lonergan
- 2000
Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth is a brilliant, darkly humorous, bittersweet portrait of youth poised on the cusp of the scary, disillusioning path to adulthood. In Reagan Era New York City, three privileged Upper West Side kids — the swaggering, drug-dealing Dennis; his dispirited, free-thinking best friend and whipping boy, Warren ...
First published in 1999, “This Is Our Youth” is a play by Kenneth Lonergan. Set in 1982, the play is a dark comedy that tells the story of three troubled young adults--Dennis, Warren, and Jessica.
This Is Our Youth (Douglas Fairbanks Theater) focuses on the directionless lives of three young middle-class New Yorkers. Both demonstrate that playwrights can sometimes be among our most penetrating cultural historians. The American play, written by the gifted Kenneth Lonergan, has a misleading title.
“This is Our Youth” follows three wayward young people as they navigate 1982 New York, recreating their broken homes in both their dysfunctional friendships and their bungled attempts at finding love. 19-year old Warren has just stolen $15,000 from his oppressive father.
In Kenneth Lonergan Lonergan’s first successful play was This Is Our Youth , an expansion of an earlier one-act play, Betrayal by Everyone . A story about disaffected young people in the early 1980s, it opened Off-Broadway in 1996 with Mark Ruffalo in the lead role.
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Kenneth Lonergan Is the Greatest Jewish Playwright You Didn’t Know Was Jewish. ‘This Is Our Youth,’ with Tavi Gevinson and Michael Cera, portrays the ‘pathetic remnants of Upper West...
