RAT Players’ ‘This Is Our Youth’ Explores Adolescence, Maturity – Twin Falls Times

TWIN FALLS • Three young adults who are at a crossroads of their lives. Living in New York City in the 1980s, they are seeking, and slowly finding their paths.

“This Is Our Youth” is a play about growing up — about individuals who are on the cusp of adulthood. The Random Acts of Theater Players will present the show at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 13-15 at the College of Southern Idaho’s Fine Arts Recital Hall.

The plot of the play involves wily and domineering Dennis Ziegler, living in his West Side apartment. Friend Warren Straub, a dejected 19-year-old, comes to the apartment hoping to stay with Ziegler for a few days. He has just been kicked out of his abusive lingerie tycoon father’s house and has stolen $15,000 on the way out.

Ziegler spends some of the money on cocaine, and hopes to sell it to a friend for much more. In the meantime, Jessica Goldman, an “anxiously insightful” fashion student comes to the apartment where Straub and Goldman engage in “an intricate dance of introduction, introspection and attraction,” according to promotion materials.

The play is directed by Jud Harmon and stars the three-member cast of Dustin Hobdey, Bryson Hatfield and Autumn Robinson. It explores timeless issues of adolescence and maturity. The characters feel adrift in 1980s-style materialism.

The production, written by Kenneth Lonergan is for mature audiences due to adult language and drug and sexual references.

“It’s about coming of age,” said Robinson, who plays Goldman. Hatfield, who plays Warren, said that when he is asked by acquaintances whether it is a comedy or dramas, said he responds that it is several genres rolled into one and encompasses many emotions.

Harmon sees the three cast members this way: Despite his sometimes self-absorbed personality, Ziegler is a caring individual at heart. Straub is “the lost boy of the play,” Harmon said.”He doesn’t have a clear path, and is trying to find pieces on which to build his adulthood.”

As for Goldman, “she knows where she came from and where she is going,” he said. She is happy about where she has been and who she is going to be.”

Robinson said that her character is argumentative as a way to find people’s viewpoints. “She is willing to listen,” she said.

As the cast members have rehearsed, they have gained more insight into the characters, she said.

In most productions, Harmon said, questions are raised at the start of the show and then answers are eventually provided. In “This Is Our Youth,” not all the questions are answered.

“It shows that they don’t have all the answers, and that is OK,” he said.

Harmon said the audience will need to think about the deepness of the dialogue.

“It is kind of a heavy piece; it has a lot of density to it,” added Hatfield.

“I think this is a show that needs to be seen,” Harmon said. “It helps us understand who we are at a society and who we are as a people.”

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Naomi Campbell gardens wearing frilly lingerie in steamy photoshoot

Naomi Campbell has spent three decades at the top of the modelling industry.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that the 45-year-old has picked up one or two tricks along the way.

This includes the ability to make anything look sexy – including a shovel.

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Naomi demonstrated the lengths of her expertise when she posted a steamy picture to Instagram on Wednesday.

The snap, shared with her 1.8 million followers, features the catwalk sensation engaging in a spot of gardening.

Except the runway star is hardly wearing a gilet or dungarees for the landscaping project.

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Instead she’s donning frilly pink and purple lingerie teamed with thigh-high suspenders.

The snap was taken during a shoot for Agent Provocateur in which Naomi is the face of the brand’s spring/summer 2015 campaign.

It was captioned: “#ohshovelinhand #naughtypap #AG @agentprovocateurofficial.”

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The picture was posted as Naomi reacts to her six-month suspended prison sentence for an attack on a photographer.

A recent hearing found the 5ft9 stunner guilty of scratching the eye of Gaetano Di Giovanni, who took pictures of her and her former boyfriend, Russian billionaire Vladimir Doronin, in August 2009

E! News reports that Naomi intends to appeal, with her lawyer Guido Carlo Alleva saying in a statement: “We are appealing the ruling surrounding the 2009 incident.

“Due to the ongoing legal process, we cannot discuss the matter further at this time.”

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