This Is Our Youth: Broadway Edition - Softcover

Lonergan, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1468311077 ISBN 13: 9781468311075

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2014

Synopsis

Dennis―with a famous painter father and social activist mother―is a small-time drug dealer and total mess. His hero-worshipping friend Warren has just impulsively stolen $15,000 from his father, an abusive lingerie tycoon. 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 1996.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclusive L.A. Theatre Works performance of This is Our Youth. In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, three pot-smoking teenagers are resoundingly rejecting the 1960's ideals of their affluent parents. In hilarious and bittersweet detail, This is Our Youth follows forty-eight turbulent hours in the lives of three very lost souls at the dawn of the Reagan Era.

Includes an interview with playwright Kenneth Lonergan, director Mark Brokaw and the three actors who originated the roles of Warren, Dennis and Jessica Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton, and Missy Yager.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

Mark Ruffalo as Warren

Josh Hamilton as Dennis

Missy Yager as Jessica

Directed by Mark Brokaw. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

From the Back Cover:

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclusive L.A. Theatre Works performance of This is Our Youth. In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, three pot-smoking teenagers are resoundingly rejecting the 1960's ideals of their affluent parents. In hilarious and bittersweet detail, This is Our Youth follows forty-eight turbulent hours in the lives of three very lost souls at the dawn of the Reagan Era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1468311077
• ISBN 13: 9781468311075
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128