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YOU GOT

OLDER

July 13 - August 4, 2018

KXT Theatre

By Clare Barron

Directed by Claudia Barrie

WINNER - 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting and Performance
THE KILROYS LIST - 1st Place - 2015
FINALIST - 2015 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
NOMINEE - 2015 4 Drama Desk Awards including Best Play

ABOUT

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

 

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REVIEWS

"★★★★ An impressively high level of craft" -The Sydney Morning Herald

"★★★★ Pitch perfect performances" -The Audrey Journal

"★★★★  Beautifully observed...this excellent production feels disarmingly real"    -The Sunday Telegraph

"Wonderfully captivating" - Suzy Goes See

"Blazingly good work...Theatre for the soul" -Sydney Arts Guide

"A great joy... Completely unpredictable" - Stage Whispers

"★★★★★ Critics' Pick! Clare Barron's extraordinary ‘You Got Older’ moved me as few new plays have...there are moments in this play I know I won't forget." - Time Out- New York

"This terrific new play by Clare Barron...offers a hilarious and painfully affecting blend of oddball dialogue, beautifully observed family dynamics.." - The New Yorker

"This extraordinary play moved me as few new plays have.★★★★★" - Time Out, New York

CREATIVE TEAM

DIRECTED BY: Claudia Barrie

PRODUCED BY: Mad March Hare

SET DESIGN: Isabel Hudson

LIGHTING DESIGN: Benjamin Brockman

SOUND DESIGN: Benjamin Pierpoint

COSTUME DESIGN: Emily Brayshaw

STAGE MANAGEMENT: Claire Ferguson

DIALECT COACHING: Amanda Stephens- Lee

MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY: Shondelle Pratt

CAST: Steve Rodgers, Harriet Gordon-Anderson, Alex Beauman, Ainslie McGlynn, Sarah Meacham, Gareth Rickards, Cody Ross

DATES, TIMES, VENUE

July 13- August 4

Tues - Sat @ 7:30pm

Sun @5pm

Sat July 28 & Sat Aug 4 @2pm

Kings Cross Theatre, Level 2 Kings Cross Hotel. 244-248 William St, Kings Cross 2011.

Running time: Approx 2 hours including interval

Image by Clare Hawley

THEATRICAL TRAILER

Trailer courtesy of Josh Anderson

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