This Is Our Youth (2020)

The play takes place in Dennis Zieglers apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in March 1982 Denniss friend Warren Straub a dejected 19yearold has just been kicked out of his house and stolen 15000 from his abusive lingerietycoon father Dennis the more wily and domineering of the two spends some of the money on cocaine hoping to sell it to a friend for much more Jessica Goldman an anxiously insightful fashion student comes over and Warren hopes that he can use the money to entice her into bed The play explores timeless issues of adolescence and maturity as well as the Reagan Era in which it is set the characters feel adrift in 1980sstyle materialism