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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

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

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Characters

Name Part Size Gender Vocal Part

Mae

Lead

Female

Spoken

Dad

Lead

Male

Spoken

Mac

Supporting

Male

Spoken

Matthew

Supporting

Male

Spoken

Jenny

Supporting

Female

Spoken

Hannah

Supporting

Female

Spoken

Cowboy

Featured

Male

Spoken

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