THE PRESS
"A treat... with strong performances"
- Tom Sime, Dallas Morning News
"Very funny…Comedies of such brio and darkly
satiric edge are rare these days…A supercool entertainment."
— Vincent Canby,
The New York Times
"What Mr. Lonergan gets gloriously is the whole cosmos
and tempo of guys-together stuff…It's an exhilarating
ride full of sympathy and truth, eliciting many a smile and
laugh of recognition."
— The Wall Street Journal
“A kind of theatrical cousin to Salinger’s
Catcher in the Rye…achieves what MTV’s The Real
World can only attempt.”
–Matt Wolf, Variety (London)
“As important to the youth of it’s decade as
Osborne’s Look Back in Anger was when it appeared in 1956.”
–Sarah Crompton, The London Daily Telegraph
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Returning in Fall 2005 to the Dallas Hub Theater
THIS
IS OUR YOUTH
By Kenneth Lonergan
This is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonergan's lacerating look
at affluent young Manhattanites of the 1980s, was first produced
by the New Group in New York in 1996 to great critical acclaim
and a Drama Desk Award nomination for best new play. Set in 1982,
the play depicts two days in the lives of three college-age Upper
West-Siders who are from wealthy families but are living in doped-up
squalor. Dennis—with a famous painter for a father and social
activist mother—is a small-time drug dealer and total mess.
His hero-worshipping, indifferently adjusted friend Warren has
just impulsively stolen $15,000 from his father, an abusive lingerie
tycoon who is "not a criminal, just in business with criminals."
When Jessica, a mixed-up fashion school coed, shows up for a date,
Warren pulls out a wad of bills and takes her off, awkwardly,
for a night of New York seduction. How will Warren turn out—will
he follow Dennis into dissipation or discover a way out? A wildly
funny, bittersweet, and ultimately quite moving story, This Is
Our Youth is remarkable in its understanding of, and attraction
of, contemporary urban youth. It’s title is now included
on the resumes of Matt Damon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Summer Phoenix,
Anna Paquin and Mark Ruffalo.
THE PLAYWRIGHT
Kenneth Lonergan has had his work performed at Naked
Angels, H.B. Playwrights' Foundation, Atlantic Theatre Company,
Manhattan Punchline, the Royal Court Theatre (London), the first
annual Young Playwrights' Festival at Circle Rep, and the Coast
Theatre in Los Angeles. Currently working on an original screenplay
for Universal and directed the Academy Award nominated film for
Best Screenplay, You Can Count On Me, which was based on his original
screenplay. He was also the co-author of the story and screenplay
for the hit movies Analyze This and Gangs of New York. His next
screenplays include adaptations of T.H. White’s The Once
and Future King and Jack Finney’s Time and Again. He lives
in New York.
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