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Dateline: 8/14/2007

GONZAGA UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE
Dale Goodwin, Director
Peter Tormey, Associate Director

'This Is Our Youth' at Russell Aug. 31-Sept. 2

Brian Russo, associate professor of communication-theatre arts.

Brian Russo, director of "This Is Our Youth," calls the play "a hard-hitting dramatic examination of disaffected and affluent young people."
Russo calls the play a "hard-hitting dramatic examination of disaffected and affluent young people."

Gonzaga University's theatre department will offer a look at American youth in its summer production, “This is Our Youth” to be staged the weekend of Aug. 31 in the Russell Theatre, located in Gonzaga's Administration Building. The show will be presented at 9 p.m. both on Friday, Aug. 31, and on Saturday, Sept. 1; and at a 4 p.m. matinee on Sunday, Sept. 2. The performance is free and open to the public.

The play, written by Kenneth Lonergan, is a "hard-hitting dramatic examination of disaffected and affluent young people," said Director Brian Russo, associate professor of communication-theatre arts at Gonzaga. “This is Our Youth,” Lonergan’s first play, was nominated for a Drama Desk Best Play.

For more information or ticket reservations, contact Director Brian Russo, associate professor of communication-theatre arts at Gonzaga, via e-mail or at (509) 323-6551.