#Clare Barron

[tv-moments]

Say Nothing

“I'll Be Seeing You”

Director: Mary Nighy

DoP: Kanamé Onoyama

[do-you-know-this-play]

[wouldshesnip]

Connie, Sofia, Ashlee, Amina, and Maeve (Dance Nation)

The play has a scene where the girls discuss circumcision and try to figure out if the lone boy on their dance team is circumcised or not.

Connie isn't Jewish, but her dad is circumcised and her son will be too.

Sofia thinks "it's barbaric to cut off a piece of your baby's penis" and that "sex is better with an uncircumcised penis". She would "never ever ever ever ever" marry a man that's pro-circumcision, but she doesn't judge the other girls for wanting to do it.

Ashlee is Jewish, but she would get her son circumcised even if she wasn't because "boys who are uncircumcised get made fun of a lot in the locker room".

Amina is surprised to hear that Sofia wouldn't do it because "everyone is circumcised".

Maeve thinks male circumcision is fine, but female circumcision is bad because it stops girls from masturbating.

Would She Snip?: Yes, no, yes, yes, yes

[echolocation7]

rip nona the ninth you would’ve loved the play dance nation by clare barron

[brechtian]

btw if anyone was interested my top five plays I read this year were Dance Nation by Clare Barron, Saint Joan of the Stockyards by Brecht, Travesties by Tom Stoppard, Les Liaisons Dangereuses adapted by Christopher Hampton, and No Exit by Sartre ❤️

[thebeautifulfantastic]

reading log | 2024

1. let the right one in -> jack thorne (jan 23)

2. night of the living dead -> lori allen ohm (jan 25)

3. oedipus rex -> sophocles (jan 31)

4. open: an uncensored memoir of love, liberation, and non-monogamy -> rachel krantz (jan 8 - feb 10)

5. lysistrata -> aristophanes (feb 8 - 14)

6. heartstopper: vol. 5 -> alice oseman (feb 15 - 19)

7. the brothers menaechmus -> plautus (feb 20)

8. the second shepherd’s play -> wakefield master (feb 27)

9. the taming of the shrew -> william shakespeare (mar 26 - 28)

10. life is a dream -> pedro calderon de la barca (apr 4 - 8)

11. doubt, a parable -> john patrick shanley (apr 11 - 12)

12. assassins -> stephen sondheim (apr 12)

13. shades of rust and ruin -> a.g. howard (jul 12, 2023 - apr 14, 2024)

14. hamlet -> william shakespeare (mar 7 - apr 15)

15. the misanthrope -> molière (apr 23)

16. acts of service -> lillian fishman (apr 18 - jun 5)

17. coriolanus -> william shakespeare (jun 8)

18. dance nation -> clare barron (jun 12)

19. the wolves -> sarah delappe (jun 13 - 28)

[samshepard]

😂 I asked because i’m looking for new books to read because i find it really hard fo read non fiction. Do you have any favourite plays that you would recommend?

oooh got it. lol we have the opposite problem, i struggle to get into novels sometimes but can power through non fiction books pretty easily these days

for plays...lol this is such a rabbit hole but for someone who doesn't regularly read plays, i think angels in america should be required reading and also scans most like a really good novel. also would rec dance nation by clare barron for a very fast and fun read. if you like those come back to me and i will suggest more stuff

[cutelilbow]

this is a random question. but does anyone have any good videos of a performance of dance nation by barron clare. i jsut read thru the script and it gutted me and frankly I need to see it performed

[fuckyeahgreatplays]

Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama 2019

Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury

A hard-hitting drama that examines race in a highly conceptual, layered structure, ultimately bringing audiences into the actors’ community to face deep-seated prejudices.

Finalists:

Dance Nation, by Clare Barron

What the Constitution Means to Me, by Heidi Schreck

The last time we had a female winner and finalists was in 2014 with The Flick, Fun Home, and The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence!

[tv-moments]

Say Nothing

“I'll Be Seeing You”

Director: Mary Nighy

DoP: Kanamé Onoyama

[searchingforthestage]

Play Recommendation: You Got Older - Clare Barron

Mae has returned home to help her father while he undergoes treatment for cancer. But she needs a little help herself. She’s just lost her boyfriend and her job. (It turns out there are consequences to dating your boss . . .) And she’s desperately craving intimacy of any sort. Mae escapes into the the arms of a chain-smoking, imaginary Cowboy who turns her on and ties her up. And she escapes into chatter with her siblings as they attempt to distract and entertain themselves in a hospital waiting room. But ultimately, it’s her deep love for her father that teaches Mae to remain optimistic and ambitious in the face of suffering and that gets her back on track. 

Here is one place where you can buy the play

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[brechtian]

11 & 17!

11. Favorite book that’s been out for a while but you just now read? - I answered this question irt to novels & lbr I almost exclusively read older shit but as for plays. Finally read No Exit by Sartre and it rules (also Brecht’s Saint Joan)

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were? - YES! For books: did not expect Goon Squad to be my novel of the year & embarrassingly just didn’t expect Hemingway to go so so hard with Old Man and the Sea. For plays: I expected Dance Nation by Clare Barron to be good, I just wasn’t prepared for HOW good

2024 reading asks

[g-e-l-en]

The thing that always gets me is this. You’re outside. You’re looking at the sky. And it’s a beautiful sky. You’re happy to be alive. You’re aware that you’re having a nice moment. That it’s a good moment in your life. But then how long should you let it go on, you know? Shouldn’t you just look at the sky forever? Or at very least until you get very hungry and you have to go do something else? But I’m always itching to go do something else even when I’m in the middle of having a nice moment. It makes me feel guilty.

Clare Barron, “You Got Older”

[twoontheaisle]

“Dance Nation” at SF Playhouse

After the critical reception it got in New York (and its status as a Pulitzer finalist), I was excited to see this production. But what a letdown! Although the cast is mostly fine, I was under-impressed by the play itself (by Clare Barron) and by Becca Wolff’s direction of it.

But hey, go read my full review at TalkinBroadway.

[belizedeservesbetter]

Every straight female playwright has a play that is basically “straight men suck” and “straight men are bad at sex” and as a lesbian I’m getting kinda tired of it