Backstage Club: You Got Older

Join us for our fab, fun, summer party - our annual Backstage Club fundraiser is back on July 9th, 2025.

Take your place to be part of our crew for the night and experience life behind the scenes at The Lir Academy! Become part of the Lir team and have a great night with friends, colleagues and our students on July 9th from 6:30pm til late. Backstage is where all the fun is at! Join us for a show, food, cocktails and cabaret - all for €150.

Book for You Got Older on this page by clicking the BOOK NOW button, see below for instalment payment details.

About the production:

After losing her job, boyfriend and apartment, Mae returns to Washington State to take care of her dad.

Back in her childhood home, she struggles to adapt and distracts herself with fantasies of a cowboy. In this intimate, vulnerable and hilarious dark comedy, Clare Barron skillfully blends reality with make-believe to explore family, illness and a re-coming of age.

You Got Older is about falling apart as you’re failing to launch, and what you might find instead.

Running time approximately 2 hours without interval.

We are now offering instalment payments through Klarna - you can use this link to make your payment. By using Klarna, you will pay for your ticket in 3 instalments of €50. This will incur a fee of €7.52 that will be absorbed by The Lir Academy from your ticket price.

Can't join us but want to help? You can donate at this link - click here.

Read more about the GradFest 2025 programme at this link here.

This amateur production of “You Got Older” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

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The Lir Academy is a registered charity (RCN: 20076689) and financially independent of Trinity College Dublin. As a non-profit, any box office, commercial or fundraised income goes back into the work we do. This includes financial student supports, mental health supports and outreach programmes to widen access and equality of training to our programmes. So, your decision to train with us, see a show or become a donor helps keep the actors, technicians and creatives of the future in education. Please see more at thelir.ie/supportus Thank you.