Clare Barron Plays 1

Dirty Crusty; You Got Older; I'll Never Love Again; Dance Nation

Clare Barron

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781350188532
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Drama
• Index: Literature

In recent years Clare Barron has emerged as one of the most acclaimed and exciting new voices in American drama.
The first ever collection of her work, this volume contains I'll Never Love Again, You Got Older, Dance Nation and Dirty Crusty. I'll Never Love Again
A theatrical chamber piece about first love, first heartbreak and how those early teenage experiences haunt the rest of our lives, I'll Never Love Again was created from the playwright's real high school diary, and recalls the anguish and mysteries of sex and love during adolescence. You Got Older
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. Dance Nation
Somewhere 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 plié and jeté is a step toward finding themselves and unleashing their power. Dirty Crusty
Jeanine 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.

DANCE NATION

Dance Nation received its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, September 2018.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of Dance Nation in 2018 with support from an award by the National Endowment of the Arts, and a generous gift from Scott M. Delman.

Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Trust for supporting new plays at Playwrights Horizons, and special thanks to the Time Warner Foundation for its leadership support of New Works Lab at Playwrights Horizons.

DANCE NATION was developed at the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, June 2015, with the Atlantic Theatre Company, and presented as part of the Contemporary American Voices Festival at Long Wharf Theatre, September 2016.

DANCE NATION was written, in part, in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, and received extensive workshop time and space as part of New Dramatists’ Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund.

US Production
Connie	Purva Bedi
Zuzu	Eboni Booth
Sofia	Camila Canó-Flaviá
Maeve	Ellen Maddow
Vanessa / The Moms	Christina Rouner
Dance Teacher Pat	Thomas Jay Ryan
Amina	Dina Shihabi
Ashlee	Lucy Taylor
Luke	Ikechukwu Ufomadu

Writer	Clare Barron
Director / Choreographer	Lee Sunday Evans
Scenic Designer	Arnulfo Maldonado
Costume Designer	Ásta Bennie Hostetter
Lighting Designer	Barbara Samuels
Sound Designer	Brandon Wolcott

Special Effects Consultant	Adam Bailey
Casting	Alaine Alldaffer, CSA
Production Stage Manager	Erin Gioia Albrecht
Assistant Stage Manager	Bryan Bauer
Assistant Director	Seonjae Kim

UK Production
Dance Teacher Pat	Brendan Cowell
Maeve	Nancy Crane
Amina	Karla Crome
The Moms / Vanessa	Miranda Foster
Sofia	Sarah Hadland
Ashlee	Kayla Meikle
Luke	Irfan Shamji
Connie	Manjinder Virk
Zuzu	Ria Zmitrowicz

Writer	Clare Barron
Director	Bijan Sheibani
Choreographer	Aline David
Set Designer	Samal Blak
Costume Designer	Moritz Junge
Lighting	Lee Curran
Sound and Composition	Marc Teitler
Casting	Amy Ball
Casting Assistant	Chandra Ruegg
Costume Supervisor	Claire Wardroper
Hair and Make-Up Designer	Giuseppe Cannas
Dialect Coach	Brett Tyne
Fight Director	Bret Yount
Resident Director	Hannah Joss
Company Stage Manager	Kate McDowell
Deputy Stage Manager	Surenee Chan Somchit
Assistant Stage Manager	Abi Cook

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