It was, I admit, a little difficult to watch Past Curfew, a weekend of one-act plays produced entirely by teenagers, and not think about the failed promise of adulthood.
The weekend transpired in a small, sweaty theater on Capitol Hill where the teens of Young Americans’ Theatre Company performed three plays for an audience of their peers and parents: Long Ago and Far Away (a magical-realist short by David Ives about a miserable couple in New York City pretending they’re happy), Childhood (a late-career fantasia by Thornton Wilder in which children run away from home—or maybe just pretend to—and reflect on the anomie of family life), and The Love Talker (another fantasia, this one Southern Gothic and written by Deborah Pryor, about the perils of sexual awakening and the literal and figurative monsters that hide in “the woods” off the beaten path)…
