At Edinburgh Festivals, Theater Exudes the Energy of Youth

NYTimes.com: "Are the kids all right? The question seemed to hang in the moist air above this city, as significant shows at both the Edinburgh International Festival and the Festival Fringe running alongside it considered the frustrations, anxieties and preoccupations of contemporary youth. Whether they were fresh-faced Belgian children at play, hard-bitten Bosnian teenagers idling after class or British adolescents negotiating the dehumanizing mechanics of the welfare system, dozens of young characters in new productions here — some portrayed by actors of the same age — embodied the complex feelings of an older generation contemplating the uncertain future of the next."