A review by clayeaston85
This is Our Youth - Acting Edition by Kenneth Lonergan

4.0

I watched a Zoom performance of this a month ago and really loved it. It’s interesting to read it as a play as someone who doesn’t really read plays. This is very much My Shit so I’m biased but I loved the texture and style put into these young characters’ existential crises and how it’s astutely juxtaposed against the Reaganite nightmare of their day to day lives (this play has uh aged extremely well in that respect). They’re simultaneously pathetic and relatable, which is such a tricky tightrope walk to pull off but Lonergan does, he’s very talented imo, I’m the first person to think this