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This Is Our Youth | Theatre | The Guardian This Is Our Youth | Theatre | The Guardian

I really like you… I don’t really agree with most of your opinions…but I don’t meet a lot of people who can actually make me think, you know? And while the Great White Way production towers over its triumvirate of performers with Todd Rosenthal’s impressive onstage recreation of Upper West Side tenement buildings from an era where everything was just a little bit dirtier, it still never once threatens to dwarf its intimate material. Well…OK…It’s just – This is getting a little weird now, because when I talked to Valerie, she asked me if anything happened with us last night, and for some reason, I guess I didn’t really tell her that anything did. A drug dealer by hobby and a short-tempered raconteur by profession, Dennis will always have the last word in scenes that often end in bitter laughter that any viewer of Igby Goes Down might be familiar with.

And want to put themselves in you even if you’re not ready and maybe those aren’t the right boys either but at least they need you for a few minutes. One of the more remarkable questions Lonergan poses in “This Is Our Youth” is: How do you forge friendships in the modern urban environment, where detachment is a code of honor? I’d have cocktails and white wine out of bottles with special dates on them in tall glasses that were all dewy with cold and I’d smile a lot.

This is Our Youth | Concord Theatricals

Even better is their morning-after spat when Jessica's post-coital anger and Warren's bumbling helplessness kill any chance of a relationship. Despite the ‘80s setting, as well as protagonist Warren Straub’s nostalgia for relics of the Boomer generation, the play’s immersive universality springs to life in a new context 20 years later. But Youth is less hopeless because though Dennis and Warren are stupid and abusive and profane, there are touching moments between Warren and Jessica, especially.My gran was laid in bed; half of her face was blue and deformed, her mouth was all twisted and taut, one eye was closed.