Brian Toews Presents THIS IS OUR YOUTH by Kenneth Lonergan

Brian Toews Presents

This Is Our Youth

A play by Kenneth Lonergan 

Directed by Brian Toews

Cast: Ian Walter | Ben Brule | Rachael Everson

Set Design: Joe Lambright

Lighting Design: Joe Wagner

Costumes/Hair-Make Up: Erika Jacobson

Promotional: Carrie Cooper and Elise Swanson

Dramaturg: Anna Wulfekuhle

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 whohelps 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.*

The show contains adult language & drug use. Viewer Discretion is advised. Mature Audiences only 18+

*from www.dramatists.com