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This is Our Youth

by Kenneth Lonergan · 1999

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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 1960s 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.

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thiscoming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of this
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theatretheatreMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisNew YorkNew YorkMore like thisLess of thisNew York StateNew York StateMore like thisLess of thiscollegecollegeMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adult
Length
short · 128 pages
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