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You Got Older

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  3w, 4m

Clare Barron

Mae returns home to help take care of Dad and – maybe (a little) – herself.

You Got Older

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 4m
  • Duration
    Duration
    105 Minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Romantic Comedy
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14-18)

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Summary

Mae returns home to help take care of Dad and – maybe (a little) – herself. You Got Older is a tender and darkly comic new play about family, illness, and cowboys – and how to remain standing when everything you know comes crashing down around you.

History
You Got Older received its world premiere at HERE Arts Center, presented by Page 73, under the directon of Anne Kaufman in 2014. 
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Performing Groups

DAD
MAE
COWBOY
MAC
MATTHEW
HANNAH
JENNY

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    Mae's childhood home in Washington state. A neighborhood bar. A hospital. 

  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features No Intermission
  • Duration 105 Minutes
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol

Media

"Five Stars! Critics' Pick! Clare Barron's extraordinary YOU GOT OLDER moved me as few new plays have. Like a great short story, it succeeds through details that...coalesce with a force all the stronger for their subtlety...there are moments in this play I know I won't forget." - Time Out New York, Read More  

"[Barron's] play... blends off-beat, sometimes raunchy comedy into a slowly fused drama..." - The New York Times, Read More 

"This terrific new play by Clare Barron...offers a hilarious and painfully affecting blend of oddball dialogue, beautifully observed family dynamics, and a preoccupation with the weird ways of the body... Barron’s special genius lies in the deep dividends she derives from small talk." - The New Yorker, Read More 

"...the bold young playwright [Clare Barron] blends fantasy with a level of brutal candor that few would even dare to bring into conversation with their closest relations. Yet in Barron's boundaryless world...[she] uses her unique voice to build a quirky and sincerely touching family story." - Theatre Mania, Read More

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Authors

Clare Barron

Clare Barron

Clare Barron is a playwright and performer from Wenatchee, Washington. Her play Dance Nation recently received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in May 2018 and subsequently its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London. It was a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Pri ...

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