Dark Comedy: 4m, 3f
Winner of the 2015 Obie Award, Playwriting and Performance
Winner of the 2015 The Kilroys' List, First Place
Finalist of the 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Nominee for 4 2015 Drama Desk Awards, including Best Play
From the back cover:
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.
"[Barron's] play [...] blends off-beat, sometimes raunchy comedy into a slowly fused drama [...]" --The New York Times
"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, Critic's Pick
"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
