You Got Older

by Claire Barron

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573704147
Publisher:	Concord Theatricals
Publication date:	07/07/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.18(d)

About the Author

CLARE BARRON is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington. Her playYou Got Older was produced by Page 73 in New York City in 2014. It won an Obie Award, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Editorial Reviews

"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

"[Barron’s] play . . . blends offbeat, sometimes raunchy comedy into a slowly fused drama. Ms. Barron is not afraid of the occasional flight of fancy . . . and still more startling surprises."—New York Times
 


"Clare Barron’s extraordinary You Got Older moved me as few new plays have. As a critic, I can usually shake things off fast . . . but for some time after the play’s wrenching finale, I found myself literally shaking. You Got Older beautifully captures elusive things about avoidance: It’s about the denial of death, but also the denial of living. 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 that I know I won’t forget."—Time Out New York
 

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