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Dennis, Warren, Jessica. Date premiered. October 26, 1996. ( 1996-10-26) Place premiered. Intar Theatre, New York City. 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
- Dennis, Warren, Jessica
- 2000
- October 26, 1996
Plot Summary. 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. When Warren steals $15,000 from his father, Dennis spends some on drugs, and Warren uses it to take Jessica to an expensive hotel.
Synopsis. 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 ...
by Kenneth Lonergan. Oscar nominated author of “You Can Count on Me” and “Lobby Hero”. This is Our Youth runs approximately two hours. “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 ...
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.
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. His next play, The Waverly Gallery, about a young…. Read More.
Sep 12, 2014 · Desperate Fledglings, Flung From the Nest. "This Is Our Youth": Kieran Culkin, left, and Michael Cera star in a Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s play at the Cort Theater. Sara Krulwich/The ...
