This is Our Youth at William Peace University

Dates: (3/22/2019 - 3/24/2019 )

Theatre:

William Peace University

Raleigh,NC

SUBMIT UPDATES

In 1982, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the wealthy, articulate, pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the '60s have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in. The very last wave of New York City’s '60s-style Liberalism has come of age—and there’s nowhere left to go. In meticulous, hilarious, and agonizing detail, THIS IS OUR YOUTH follows forty-eight hours of three very lost young souls in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan Era: Warren Straub, a dejected nineteen-year-old who steals fifteen thousand dollars from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father; Dennis Ziegler, the charismatic domineering drug-dealing friend who helps him put the money to good use; and Jessica Goldman, the anxiously insightful young woman Warren yearns for. Funny, painful, and compassionate, THIS IS OUR YOUTH is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when many young people first go out into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers—ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.

by Kenneth Lonergan

Authors

Kenneth Lonergan

News About This is Our Youth at William Peace University

North Carolina Theatre Announces Three New Positions

January 25, 2021

North Carolina Theatre has announced three new positions starting this spring, filled in preparation for live performance and the start of digital streaming in its 2021-22 season.

More Local Shows

Add a Raleigh Show Listing

Videos

View all Videos

RALEIGH SHOWS


		Jane Eyre Theatre Raleigh (5/29 - 6/9)
		North Carolina Symphony presents Stars and Stripes Wilson Center (7/2 - 7/2)
		J.B. Smoove Wilson Center (9/13 - 9/13)
		Dawn Landes & Friends Perform THE LIBERATED WOMAN’S SONGBOOK PlayMakers Repertory Company (5/4 - 5/4)
		RAIN -- A Tribute to the Beatles Wilson Center (5/7 - 5/8)
		“Anne of Green Gables” Wake Forest Renaissance Centre (5/18 - 5/19)
		Ex-Boyfriends Burning Coal Theatre Company (6/6 - 6/23)
		Lerner & Loewe's Camelot The North Carolina Theatre (11/16 - 11/24)
VIEW SHOWS ADD A SHOW FIND A JOB


News on your favorite shows, specials & more!