This Is our Youth

Synopsis

This Is Our Youth is set in New York in 1982, the decade of ‘money fever . The play depicts forty-eight hours in the lives of three rich middle class teenagers who have $15,000 stolen dollars to blow on a hedonistic spending spree. It is Kenneth Lonergan s first play, written in 1996 and nominated for a Drama Desk Best Play Award. He was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his 2001 film You Can Count on Me, which he wrote and directed. His other work includes Lobby Hero, which features in the forthcoming Donmar season of new American writing.

Our Review:

28 January 2003

The press night for the latest trio of Hollywood starlets to appear in Kenneth Lonergan's smash hit comedy about three little rich kids floundering in Reaganite America was also, coincidentally, 'Buffy Night' on Sky TV. But that didn't stop coach loads of teenage fans from turning out to see Freddie Prinze Jr, the real-life husband of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Sara Michelle Gellar), in the flesh.

In This Is Our Youth, Prinze plays gawky student Warren, who turns up at his best pal Dennis' scuzzy apartment with a shoe-bag full of stolen dollars, which he blows on a cocktail of champagne, hard-core drugs and getting laid at a smart Manhatten hotel with flirty young Jessica.

From a marketing point of view, Prinze is very clever heartthrob casting, and his boyish good looks and easy charm - seen mostly in the UK in Scooby Doo-type teen-flicks - are bound to lure the youth audience to the West End. From an artistic point of view, apart from a te...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (217.207.222.236) - 26 February 2003:

I really enjoyed this play. Its amazing that just three actors on one set can entertain an audiance of people and have them laughing throughout for a couple of hours. Freddie and Chris were brilliant and they really make you believe that they are there characters. Excellant! ...

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