{"product_id":"clare-barron-plays-1-dirty-crusty-you-got-older-ill-never-love-again-dance-nation-9781350188518","title":"Clare Barron Plays 1: Dirty Crusty; You Got Older; I'll Never Love Again; Dance Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years Clare Barron has emerged as one of the most acclaimed and exciting new voices in American drama.\u003cbr\u003eThe first ever collection of her work, this volume contains \u003ci\u003eI'll Never Love Again, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Got Older\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDance Nation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDirty Crusty\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eI'll Never Love Again\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA theatrical chamber piece about first love, first heartbreak and how those early teenage experiences haunt the rest of our lives, \u003ci\u003eI'll Never Love Again\u003c\/i\u003e was created from the playwright's real high school diary, and recalls the anguish and mysteries of sex and love during adolescence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou Got Older\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMae returns home to help take care of Dad and - maybe (a little) - herself. \u003ci\u003eYou Got Older \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they'll claw their way to the top at the Boogie Down Grand Prix in Tampa Bay. Yet these young dancers have more than choreography on their minds, as every \u003ci\u003eplié \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ejeté \u003c\/i\u003eis a step toward finding themselves and unleashing their power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDirty Crusty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJeanine is determined to improve her life. With sex. With dance. With new hobbies, like horticulture. But self-improvement is hard. Reclaiming your dreams is hard. And personal hygiene is really, really hard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClare Barron is a playwright and performer from Wenatchee, Washington. Her play \u003ci\u003eDance Nation\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and The Relentless Award established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Other plays include: \u003ci\u003eYou Got Older\u003c\/i\u003e (Page 73; Steppenwolf) which received an Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Play, and was a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist; \u003ci\u003eI'll Never Love Again\u003c\/i\u003e (The Bushwick Starr); and \u003ci\u003eBaby Screams Miracle\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Methuen Drama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51860268515602,"sku":"9781350188518","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c394ffd-6adc-4b67-8ed5-e3e704368aa3.jpg?v=1767782541","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/clare-barron-plays-1-dirty-crusty-you-got-older-ill-never-love-again-dance-nation-9781350188518","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}