Overview
Synopsis
Dumped and fired by her boyfriend/boss, Mae assumes her life can’t get worse -- until her Dad acquires a rare, aggressive form of cancer. When she moves home to care for her ailing parent, Mae’s routine assumes an aimless, horrible youthfulness: sneak out to the bar, avoid her Dad’s discussion of job applications, smuggle a man into her room, watch the vegetable garden grow. Mae finds release in wild sexual fantasies of a rough, Canadian cowboy, and uncomfortable and infantilizing camaraderie in her siblings, who gather in the hospital for Dad’s surgery, the hoped-for completion to his treatment. A dark comedy about coming of age as your youth falls apart behind you, Clare Barron’s You Got Older is a painfully hilarious and deeply emotional story that is not afraid to tackle the grittiest details of sex and death, or to illustrate the delicate moments that occur in times of passage.
Show Information
- Book
- Clare Barron
- Category
- Play
- Age Guidance
- Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
- Number of Acts
- 1
- First Produced
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama, Dark Comedy
- Settings
- Contemporary, Multiple Settings
- Time & Place
- present day (2010s), mae’s childhood home in washington state, a bar, a hospital
- Cast Size
- small
- Licensor
- Samuel French
- Ideal For
- Mostly Male Cast, Includes Adult, Mature Adult Characters, Small Cast
Context
Plot
Characters
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Featured |
Male |
Spoken |
Songs
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.
Monologues
Scenes
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Videos
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