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A Co-production with Dig Deep Theatre

This is Our Youth
By Kenneth Lonergan

May 8-17
At The Olive Branch

This is Our Youth follows 48 hours in the lives of three very lost young souls in the big city in meticulous, hilarious, and agonizing detail, at the dawn of the Reagan era. The trio includes Warren Straub, a dejected 19-year-old who steals $15,000 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.

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