You GotOlderby Clare Barron
directed by Wendy Overly presented in rotating rep with DANCE NATION |
"Riveting and engaging...
a complete joy." -The Providence Journal "SUPERB ACTING AND DIRECTION"
-Theater Mirror "A highly enjoyable, thought-provoking, and heartfelt production"
-Broadway World "beautifully acted"
-Motif Magazine |
"The Wilbury Theatre Group's stellar production of [Clare Barron's] 2015 Obie-winning play You Got Older powerfully captures Barron's charming oddball pathos...A highly enjoyable, thought-provoking, and heartfelt production."
- Broadway World
- Broadway World
YOU GOT OLDER
by Clare Barron, directed by Wendy Overly
by Clare Barron, directed by Wendy Overly
November 29 - December 21
presented in rotating rep. with Dance Nation
Mae's life is kinda falling apart. Her boyfriend dumped her, she got fired from her job, and she's moved back home to take care of her dad. As if that weren't enough, she has this weird rash and a fantasy cowboy that just won't leave her alone.
What happens when your life path leads you right over a cliff? In this bawdy, irreverent and touching new play, up-and-coming playwright Clare Barron masterfully blends reality and fantasy in a dark comedy about falling apart as you're failing to launch, and what you might find instead.
What happens when your life path leads you right over a cliff? In this bawdy, irreverent and touching new play, up-and-coming playwright Clare Barron masterfully blends reality and fantasy in a dark comedy about falling apart as you're failing to launch, and what you might find instead.
NEWS AND REVIEWS
"Riveting and engaging...
You got Older, which opened Friday at The Wilbury Theatre Group, winds up slowly but hits hard and, while it’s not without warning, it’s a visceral pain that ripples through the room. Around it, Barron packs inviting laughter, a smattering of intimacy and racy dreams and a steady, loving banter to remind us that life vacillates from pain to joy, often in a heartbeat."
-The Providence Journal
"Superb acting and direction....
Director Wendy Overly molds her seven member cast into these characters marvelously and makes us confront a dramatic part of our lives when dealing with a parent’s final illness. She brings out the best in each of her cast members."
-Theater Mirror
"The Wilbury Theatre Group's stellar production of [Clare Barron's] 2015 Obie-winning play You Got Older powerfully captures Barron's charming oddball pathos...
This is a highly enjoyable, thought-provoking, and heartfelt production."
- Broadway World
"The sprinkling in of joy among sadness — and, for that matter, sadness among joy — is central to the play. Though on the surface, You Got Older has little to do with its partner show other than sharing the same playwright, it does tack on to the statements about girlhood Dance Nation puts forth, as Mae struggles with balancing the needs of others with her own needs — being a caretaker and also taking care of herself."
-Motif Magazine
You got Older, which opened Friday at The Wilbury Theatre Group, winds up slowly but hits hard and, while it’s not without warning, it’s a visceral pain that ripples through the room. Around it, Barron packs inviting laughter, a smattering of intimacy and racy dreams and a steady, loving banter to remind us that life vacillates from pain to joy, often in a heartbeat."
-The Providence Journal
"Superb acting and direction....
Director Wendy Overly molds her seven member cast into these characters marvelously and makes us confront a dramatic part of our lives when dealing with a parent’s final illness. She brings out the best in each of her cast members."
-Theater Mirror
"The Wilbury Theatre Group's stellar production of [Clare Barron's] 2015 Obie-winning play You Got Older powerfully captures Barron's charming oddball pathos...
This is a highly enjoyable, thought-provoking, and heartfelt production."
- Broadway World
"The sprinkling in of joy among sadness — and, for that matter, sadness among joy — is central to the play. Though on the surface, You Got Older has little to do with its partner show other than sharing the same playwright, it does tack on to the statements about girlhood Dance Nation puts forth, as Mae struggles with balancing the needs of others with her own needs — being a caretaker and also taking care of herself."
-Motif Magazine
PRODUCTION MEDIA
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"It’s the little things in this production that are most impressive...Each moment is very different, very momentary, but equally riveting."
-The Providence Journal |
CAST
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CREATIVE TEAM
by Clare Barron
Directed by Wendy Overly Set Design by Keri King & Monica Shinn Costume Design by Emily Taradash Sound Design by Andy Russ Light Design by Marc Tiberis Original Music by Chris Mulkey Stage Management by Emily Varden Asst. Stage Management by Brittany Costello Production Photos by Erin X. Smithers Video Footage & Editing by Sarah LaBrosse View the playbill for 2X CLARE BARRON |
*Members of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
About Clare Barron
Playwright Clare Barron
Clare Barron is a playwright and performer from Wenatchee, Washington. Her play Dance Nation recently received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in May 2018 and subsequently its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London. It is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Relentless Award established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other plays include: You Got Older (Page 73; Steppenwolf) which received two Obie Awards for Playwriting and Performance, a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Play, and was a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist and the #1 most-recommended play on the Kilroys' List; I’ll Never Love Again (The Bushwick Starr); and Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb; Woolly Mammoth). She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Drama, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at The Vineyard, and the Page 73 Fellowship; and is a member of New Dramatists.
You Got Talkback!
Following the Friday, December 6 performance
Join us Friday, December 6 for a post-performance talkback moderated by Cheryl Cavalconte. A former board member at The Wilbury Theatre Group, Cheryl is a minister and past Chair of Rhode Island’s Chapter of Spiritual Directors International, and a former professor of social justice and public speaking at Roger Williams University. A Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer survivor, Cheryl is working on a book about her frequent encounters with death.
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