Dig Deep Theatre To Present THIS IS OUR YOUTH By Kenneth Lonergan At The Main Theatre

Dig Deep Theatre's production of Kenneth Lonergan's This Is Our Youth will run for 9 performances over two weekends at The MAIN in Santa Clarita, April 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27. Dig Deep's production of the play - Lonergan's first playwriting success - will be Santa Clarita's first chance to see his sharp, layered writing brought to the stage.

This Is Our Youth is about three teens emerging into adulthood on New York's Upper West Side in 1982. They are coming of age in the wake of the election of Ronald Reagan, in a country that has resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in, by parents who made up the last wave of '60's Liberalism. The play is an insightful snapshot both of the moment between adolescence and maturity, and of a particular moment in America.

This Is Our Youth premiered Off Broadway in 1996, and featured a career-making performance from Mark Ruffalo. The New York Times wrote of the play: "The world Mr. Lonergan explores is the desolate, dead-end universe of young Manhattanites with rich parents and no direction...With an ear attuned to the coarse, ironic language of city kids too cosmopolitan for their own good, Mr. Lonergan seems to know this terrain well."

Subsequent productions have included a 2002 run in the West End with Jake Gyllenhaal and a 2014 Broadway debut with Michael Cera and recent Oscar Winner Kieran Culkin.

Audiences will be familiar with Lonergan's on-screen work as both writer and director of films including Manchester by the Sea (Oscar, Best Original Screenplay), You Can Count On Me, and Margaret; he also co-wrote Gang of New York and Analyze This.