This Is Our Youth

THIS IS OUR YOUTH
by Kenneth Lonergan

STARRING
Dennis: Jacob Tice
Warren : Niclas Olson
Jessica: Kait Mahoney

DIRECTED BY
Niclas Olson

In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the wealthy, articulate pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the '60s have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in. The very last wave of New York City's '60s-style Liberalism has come of age—and there's nowhere left to go. In meticulous, hilarious, and agonizing detail, THIS IS OUR YOUTH follows forty-eight hours of three very lost young souls in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan Era: Warren Straub, a dejected nineteen-year-old who steals fifteen thousand dollars from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father; Dennis Ziegler, the charismatic domineering drug-dealing friend who helps him put the money to good use; and Jessica Goldman, the anxiously insightful young woman Warren yearns for. Funny, painful, and compassionate, THIS IS OUR YOUTH is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when many young people first go out into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers—ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.

Pay-What-You-Can
Tickets Available at the Door

Tacoma Little Theater
210 North "I" St, Tacoma WA

7.27.2014 at 7:00
ONE NIGHT ONLY

"In a season in which some of the wise men of the theater have been trying to force-feed insipid fare…to young audiences, it's sheer relief to celebrate the return of a rambunctious and witty play about wayward teenagers and post-adolescents that doesn't turn youthful travails into plastic rap…THIS IS OUR YOUTH—by turns caustic, cruel and compassionate—is the real real world." —NY Times.

"This is quite simply, a sterling example of why we keep going…THIS IS OUR YOUTH is as good as theater gets." —NY Daily News.

"Lonergan, whose ear for the way his characters speak is pitch-perfect, is no less attuned to the simmering potential in their silent hearts." —Variety.

This Is Our Youth is produced by special arrangement with Dramatist's Play Service, Inc.