You Got Older
by Clare Barron

Name: You Got Older
Brand: Clare Barron
SKU: 9780573704147
Rating: 3.84 (269 reviews)

You Got Older Book Cover — You Got Older Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

105 minsPresent DayMulticultural CastingUnit Set/Multiple SettingsContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesComedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk AwardObie Award

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

Synopsis

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.

Press Reviews

"★★★★★ 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 (2014)

"Blends off-beat, sometimes raunchy comedy into a slowly fused drama."
— The New York Times

"Terrific new play... 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."
— TheaterMania

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Mae Daughter of Dad, 32	female	—	Daughter of Dad, 32
Cowboy You don’t know if he’s gonna fuck you or kill you	—	—	You don’t know if he’s gonna fuck you or kill you
Mac A dude from Mae’s hometown	—	—	A dude from Mae’s hometown
Hannah Big sister	female	—	Big sister
Matthew Middle brother	male	—	Middle brother
Jenn	—	—	—
Dad Father of Mae, in his 60s	male	60s	Father of Mae, in his 60s