Flint, a smart young black student, just wants to assimilate into the exclusive prep school where he recently won a scholarship, and fulfill his dream of going to college. His new white classmate may have other plans. Hailed at its New York premiere as "stylish… kinetic… compromising… one of the more powerful arguments… why African-Americans start out with two strikes against them" (Backstage), Season of Youth marked the emergence of Jonathan Saldivar as one of the most original and exciting new voices in the American theatre.