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2010-2011 Season

THIS IS OUR YOUTH

By Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by Santry Rush

October 21-23, 2010  //  8pm
October 28-30, 2010  //  8pm

$20 regular admission - BUY online
$10 student tickets with I.D.*
*Sold @ the door only

Dennis and Warren are trying, and failing, to make it in Manhattan.  After Warren steals $15,000 from his father, and lugs it back to Dennis’s apartment in a suitcase, the two decide to use the money to sell cocaine, with disastrous results.  This darkly comic, satiric, and bittersweet play takes a look at the drastic and dangerous measures young people will take to forge their own path.  First produced in 1996 to great acclaim, this Drama Desk Award nominated play explores the disillusionment of three pampered young adults and their subsequent struggles with drug abuse.  

Recommended for Mature Audiences

Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director.  His plays include Lobby Hero and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Waverly Gallery.  His film You Can Count On Me, which he wrote and directed, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay and won the Sundance 2000 Grand Jury Prize.  Lonergan was also nominated for an Academy Award for Gangs of New York, which he co-wrote.

MTC’s partner organization for this production is The Palmer Drug Abuse Program (PDAP).  PDAP has been providing free substance abuse recovery services to youth ages 12-25 and their parents in the Greater Houston Metropolitan Area since 1971.

All performances will take place in MTC’s home in the West Houston Community Center, located at 725 Bateswood, Houston, TX  77079 (MAP).

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This is Our Youth is produced with special permission from Dramatists Play Service.
This project is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.