The Outsiders

Adapted by Christopher Sergel

From the book by S.E. Hinton

About the Show:

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. "Robert Frost wrote it," Ponyboy tells Johnny. "I always remembered it because I never quite got what he meant by it." Cherry, a beautiful Soc, comes to share a special sensitivity with Ponyboy as she discovers that he remembers poems and needs to watch sunsets. At the same time, Cherry's attracted to the older, tougher Dallas, and in a sense she's caught in the violent space between the Greasers and the Socs. While the Socs appear to have everything, the only thing a Greaser has is his friends. As these young people try to find themselves and each other, as the sadness of sophistication begins to reach them and their battles and relationships reach a resolution, Ponyboy's dying friend, Johnny, sends him a last message … I've been thinking about the poem that guy wrote. He meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep it that way. It's a good way to be. This is a play about young people who are not yet hopeless about latent decency in the midst of struggle.

Important Details:

Auditions: December 2, 2026, 4:30pm-8:00pm

Tech Week: February 15, 17-18, 2027

Performances: February 19, 2027 at 7:00PM, February 20, 2027 at 7:00PM, and February 21, 2027 at 2:00PM

Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 4:30pm-8:00pm

Ages: 13-18

Price: $325

All rehearsals and performances at Trinity Theatre Company, 9520 Padgett Suite, Suite 208, San Diego, CA 92126.

Creative Team:

Directed by Megan Goyette

Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois