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re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts

Posted by: NeoAdamite 12:16 pm EDT 09/11/14
In reply to: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts - jesse21 09:19 am EDT 09/11/14

Were you bothered (as I was) when the play talks about being Jewish, but the actors felt nothing like kids from that culture?

It's hard to define what that means, of course. Sometimes I think it's the eastern European speech rhythms that are missing, or maybe it's the particular way the hands are used (or not used) when talking.

Or am I losing my mind?


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re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts

Posted by: jesse21 04:28 pm EDT 09/11/14
In reply to: re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts - NeoAdamite 12:16 pm EDT 09/11/14

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Agree with Alan.

The speech rhythms you refer to were probably lost at the latest in the generation of the parents as described by the three characters in the play. Additionally, the play's trio no doubt attended private schools on either side of the Park.

I thought the three actors looked and sounded like people of that age did on the UWS back in the 1980s and, in fact, do today, Jewish or not.

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re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts

Posted by: ryhog 02:29 pm EDT 09/11/14
In reply to: re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts - NeoAdamite 12:16 pm EDT 09/11/14

I agree with what Alan said below. Kids in the 80s from either side of the park didn't sound or act like characters from a Neil Simon play. Is that kinda what you were looking for?


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re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts

Posted by: AlanScott 01:52 pm EDT 09/11/14
In reply to: re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts - NeoAdamite 12:16 pm EDT 09/11/14

I don't know if you're losing your mind, but I'm Jewish and about the age those characters would be now and I lived in that neighborhood in 1982, and I had no trouble believing any of them were Jewish kids from the Upper West Side at that time.


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re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts

Posted by: NeoAdamite 12:09 am EDT 09/12/14
In reply to: re: My review of THIS IS OUR YOUTH: Playwright Kenneth Lonergan and cast make Bway debuts - AlanScott 01:52 pm EDT 09/11/14

I'm Jewish and about the age those characters would be now and I lived in that neighborhood in 1982

Me too, which is why I bothered asking. Though now that I think of it, I tended to run with an older crowd, maybe just enough to make a difference.


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