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You Got Older

  • Clare Barron
  • Full Length Play, Dark Comedy, Present Day, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 4M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573704147

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

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dark Comedy
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary, New Millennium/21st Century
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings, Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Nudity/Partial Nudity, Mild Adult Themes, Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • WINNER! Obie Award for Playwriting and Performance (2015)
    THE KILROY'S LIST - 1st Place (2015)
    FINALIST! Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (2015)
    NOMINEE! 4 Drama Desk Awards including Best Play (2015)
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.
REVIEWS:

FIVE STARS! CRITIC'S PICK! "Clare Barron's extraordinary You Got Older moved me as few new plays have. Like a great 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

"[Barron's] play...blends off-beat, sometimes raunchy comedy into a slowly fused drama..."

 The New York Times

"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

"...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

Premiere Production: You Got Older received its world premiere at HERE Arts Center, presented by Page 73, under the direction of Anne Kaufman in 2014.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)

  • DAD - father of Mae, in his 60s
    MAE - daughter of Dad, 32
    COWBOY - you don't know if he's gonna fuck you or kill you
    MAC - a dud from Mae's hometown
    HANNAH - big sister
    MATTHEW - middle brother
    JENNY - little sister

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    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.

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