FREE THIS IS OUR YOUTH: BROADWAY EDITION PDF Kenneth Lonergan | 128 pages | 01 Oct 2014 | Overlook Press | 9781468311075 | English | United States Online fall Broadway play revivals attract starry casts | Honolulu Star-Advertiser Dennis, the more wily and domineering of the two, spends some of the money This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition cocainehoping to sell it to a friend for much more. Jessica Goldman, an "anxiously insightful" fashion student, comes over and Warren hopes that he can use the money to entice her into bed. The play explores timeless issues of adolescence and maturity, as well as the Reagan Era in which it is set: the characters feel adrift in s-style materialism. The play premiered This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition Broadway at the Cort Theatre in previews beginning August 18, and opening September 11, for a twenty-week run through January 4, Directed by Anna D. The Worldhad been in talks to stage a revival in New York during ; [11] they later headlined a run at the Sydney Opera House in March Writing in The New York Timescritic Peter Marks called the play in "a revealing and offbeat dissection of its world," adding, "It is not easy to find love and humor in the middle of nowhere. But with the skill of a first-rate creative team, even nowhere can be someplace special. In a season in which some of the wise men of the theater have been trying to force-feed insipid fare like 'Stupid Kids' and ' Footloose ' to young audiences, it's sheer relief to celebrate the return of a rambunctious and witty play about wayward teen-agers and post-adolescents that doesn't turn youthful travails into plastic rap. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved Retrieved 11 June Washington Post. Toronto StarSeptember 15, The New York Times. Retrieved 7 July Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 July Time Out New York. Works by Kenneth Lonergan. 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Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. This is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan. Dennis—with a famous painter father and social activist mother—is a small-time drug dealer and total mess. When Jessica, a mixed-up prep school girl, shows up for a date, Warren pulls out a wad of bills and takes her off, awkwardly, for a night of seduction. A wildly funny, bittersweet, and moving story, This Is Our Youth is as trenchant as it was upon its acclaimed premiere in Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition February 2nd by Harry N. Abrams first published January 1st More Details Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about This is Our Youthplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of This is Our Youth. May 16, This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition Schaafsma rated it really liked it Shelves: drama. I know Kenneth Lonergan through some great films such as Manchester by the Sea but never read or saw a production of this play, which was said to define yet another lost generation of young people. I was even This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition in Manhattan in when it premiered to great acclaim, but the focus of the play--three rich white teens living on the upper west side, eh--I thought I had better and more useful things to do with my time. But now I listened to This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition great LA Theater Works production of the play I know Kenneth Lonergan through some great films such as Manchester by the Sea but never read or saw a production of this play, which was said to define yet another lost generation of This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition people. These three kids This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition rich, two guys just graduated from some rich prep school and a girl who is a prep school student. They have resources and no plans, no ambitions, and are in no way admirable though in this production, a kind of looking back, there is some empathy for their being lost that I detect. Nonme of them have anything going for them except they are privileged rich white kids, and yet the dialogue is terrific, often funny, occasionally touching. I see this piece in tandem with Larry Clark's film Kids about rich mostly white Manhattan middle school kids lost already in drugs and sexboth sort of moral warnings about kids nowadaze. And they are both scary in certain ways and funny in their hopelessness, too. But Youth is less hopeless because though Dennis and Warren are stupid and abusive and profane, there are touching moments between Warren and Jessica, especially. I also see clear connections between Lonergan and David Mamet--the great dialogue, the lost ainless characters mainly just talking, the exploration of "the present moment" and the swirl of ethical dilemmas. I know, I haven't sold you yet on why you should read or listen to this, none of them are admirable, but at least for moments they seem vulnerable and we are surprised to care about them. Such great performances, followed by a discussion with the playwright, the director and the three actors that is terrific. Mar 30, Kristopher Jansma rated it really liked it Shelves: bookblog. Once upon This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition time, I was the president of my college theater group and I can't say how many times this play came up as an option to be produced. I never read the play - I heard the plot synopsis and I was sold on the spot - slacker youths, drugs and sex, lots of cursing, and that it had somehow stood out as the quintessential play in the genre. For all those same reasons, my fellow board members routinely voted it down Anyway, after years and years I thought I might actually like to read the play and see what we'd missed out on. I picked it up while bored in a bookstore in Harvard Square over the This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition and read through most of Act One in the fifteen minutes or so I had to kill. So, now that I have, I can say that my earlier, baseless statements were right. The play is quite a lot of fun and almost exactly what I had envisioned during the years it lived in my imagination as just a concept. It's witty, rough, irreverent, and hypnotic, despite very little actually going on. There's a vague plot surrounding some stolen money, without which, I suppose, there's not much action No, the main thrill of the play is watching the interaction between This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition and Warren, our two slacker-heroes. Dennis is the clear master in the relationship at first - he bosses This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition meek Warren around, which only leads Warren to further idol-worship Dennis. The real plot of the play is not some stuff about drugs and cash, but about watching Warren break free of Dennis's control and step into his own for the first time. It's a powerful, moving little progression - you cannot help but be similarly drawn to the magnanimity that is Dennis - he's fast-talking, quick witted, hopelessly manipulative, and fascinating. It was no surprise to me to finally notice at the end of my read that the part was originated by none other than Josh Hamilton - without prompting, I'd been picturing him all along - in part because of his somewhat similar role in Things We Want.