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July 10, 2005
This is Our Youth
Saw this show at the Little Theater up on 19th the other night called "This is Our Youth," written by Kenneth Lonergan and directed by Mark Gallagher.
Gallagher also did "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," which we saw last year and absolutely loved. The humor in this one was kind of similar, like when the characters use sock puppets, do kung fu with hockey sticks or act out silly death scenes in slo-mo.
It was about kids, about 19 to 23, I'd guess, living in New York and doing pot and having no issues with money because they haven't been loosed from the $$$ lines of their parents, who are way successful but also sort of messed up because of it.
So the kids can't truly be independent. Big conflict to them means disagreeing about fashion or whether people's personalities change as they get older. Then death comes into the picture.
Death is big and real, and the main character suddenly gets it that for too long real life stuff has been pushed "off to the side."
The smart, rich kids in this play got no attention growing up, so they turned inwards, retreating further into themselves until surrounded by only darkness.
Then, when they got their first chance, they migrated towards the nearest bright lights.
To their heroes.
Who might just be lame, older versions of themselves.
Who could have been brilliant, but dream of nothing.
Posted by Dipika at July 10, 2005 6:25 PM
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