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Plays with a youthful cast

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Plays with a youthful cast#1
Posted: 7/27/11 at 8:08pm
Hey folks
Could you help me out and list any plays you know whos main charachters are in their late teens, early - mid 20s.

Plays along the lines of Dog Sees God, Pyscho Beach Party, Reasons to be Pretty, Jewtopia etc. Anything that could also reach a younger audience (20s to 30s). They need to be quite 'trendy' plays (i know i hate that term as well)

Thanks x
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Plays with a youthful cast#2
Posted: 7/27/11 at 8:13pm
This Is Our Youth's three characters are late teens-early 20's.
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Plays with a youthful cast#2
Posted: 7/27/11 at 8:15pm
What;s "trendy"? Plays written in the last ten years? Narrow your parameters a bit so the thread doesnt become a wide swath.
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Posted: 7/27/11 at 8:53pm
Sean Martin
Either plays that deal with things that are current today and will go ovr well with a non theatre audience as well as a normal theatre audience.
Or
Something fun along the lines of Jewtopia, Beach Party etc.

Genres would be comedy, drama, thriller
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Plays with a youthful cast#4
Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:05pm
I'd look at just about anything by Ludlam, but that depends on how open minded your audience is.
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Plays with a youthful cast#5
Posted: 7/27/11 at 9:41pm
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute. The characters are in their early to mid 20's.

Red Light Winter by Adam Rapp. The characters are 30, 30ish and 25.

Both plays have small casts (3-4 people) and both are dramas. They're both pretty dark too actually. Heh.
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Plays with a youthful cast#6
Posted: 7/27/11 at 10:48pm
Just remembered a wonderfully ditzy script that hasnt seen enough play: WONDER OF THE WORLD. I dont know the playwright, sorry, but it's a howl of a show. About 8 in the cast, IIRC.
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Plays with a youthful cast#7
Posted: 7/27/11 at 10:53pm
Thanks so much guys, im looking those up right now

Also any great gay plays as well (not The Normal Heart, Angels in America etc)
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Plays with a youthful cast#8
Posted: 7/28/11 at 10:17am
A Sense of Place or Virgil is Still the Frogboy by Lanford Wilson.
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Plays with a youthful cast#9
Posted: 7/28/11 at 11:21am
Neil Labute's fine, funny, and relatively wholesome Reasons to be Pretty
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Plays with a youthful cast#10
Posted: 7/28/11 at 11:31am
Take a look at Stop Kiss by Diana Son.
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Plays with a youthful cast#11
Posted: 7/28/11 at 11:39am
I loved Stupid Kids from back in '98. Was really really funny and very moving in the end.