The SOVERIGN SEASON of
this is our youth
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By Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by Rachel More
1-29 March
7.30pm, Circa 2
this is our youth is a fast paced modern comedy about the waste of rich bored youth in Reagan Era America – 3 teens in 1
room for 48 hours with $15000 and 0 scruples!
this is our youth takes place in cool trust fund baby, Dennis Ziegler's apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in
March 1982. Dennis' awkward friend, Warren, drops by after being kicked out of home with a suitcase packed with $15,000
stolen from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father.
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Dennis, the more manipulative and domineering of the two, hatches a plan - spending some of the money on cocaine, hoping
to sell it to a friend of his for much more. When the object of Warren’s affection, the gorgeous Jessica Goldman,
arrives, things really get complicated.
this is our youth is a funny clever fast paced black comedy that explores the timeless issues of lost adolescence and
maturity as well as the Reagan Era in which it takes place – where power and greed are replacing the 1960s-style
liberalism the characters were brought up to believe in.
Funny, painful, and compassionate, this is our youth is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and
adulthood.
“This is quite simply, a sterling example of why we keep going… this is our youth is as good as theatre gets.” The New
York Daily News
Starring: Martyn Wood (Angels in America, Sexual Perversity in Chicago), Allan Henry (Renaissance Man, Sexual Perversity
in Chicago) and Rachel Forman (Blackbird, Turbine)
Director: Rachel More Set Design: Brian King Lighting Design: Jen Lal
Bookings: 04 801 7992
Cost: $38-18
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