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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)
Accolades
Accolades
  • WINNER! 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting and Performance
    WINNER! 2015 The Kilroys' List, First Place
    FINALIST! 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
    NOMINEE! Four 2015 Drama Desk Awards, including Best Play

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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 - 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 dude from Mae’s hometown
HANNAH - big sister
MATTHEW - middle brother
JENNY - little sister
  • Time Period Contemporary, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century
  • 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
    • Strong Language
    • Mild Adult Themes
    • Nudity/Partial Nudity

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REVIEWS

"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." - TheaterMania, Read More    

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Spotlight on YOU GOT OLDER
by Rebecca Schlossberg
October 20, 2015

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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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