This is our Yourth: drugs, sex, foul language and self delusion: more than a little dated in 2 011.
Drugs, sex, foul language and self-delusion, combined with a sense of entitlement. These are the underpinnings of the world depicted in This is our Youth.
I thank my lucky stars that it was not my youth. Perhaps this is why Kenneth Lonergan’s 1996 drama — set in New York during the Reagan era in 1982 — does not resonate with me.
Admittedly, the dialogue, heavily padded with the f-word and worse, rings true for this threesome of Upper West Side drifters from wealthy backgrounds living through the dropout generation of the 1980s. And, by the end of the play, there is a sense that they have overcome some of their moral confusion, if not their destructive drug habits.