Youth, 18:1 is deliveredby sophisticated direction, resonant dialogue, musical-like dance numbers and ethnicpop band Futumayo’s music. Youth is the time in life when one can put trustbefore conviction, the present before the future, and stake everything on theirfriends who believe in themselves and what they think as right. This play tellsthe story of eighteen year-olds who sacrificed their lives for the IndependenceMovement about a month before Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule.