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Book SynopsisWinner of a 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting. Mae has returned home to help her father while he undergoes treatment for cancer. But she needs a little help herself. With deceptive understatement, Barron illustrates both small moments of human connection and our ferocious desire for it, always surging beneath the surface.
Trade ReviewThis 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
