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'Our sexuality is wild' – Clare Barron, the dramatist pushing flesh to its limits

Her plays are full of big, soulful, sexually charged parts for women. As Dirty Crusty hits Britain, the writer talks about binge-dating and casting off the shame she learned growing up

Clare Barron is drinking coffee in a Brooklyn restaurant she hasn’t visited since she broke up with a boyfriend over at the window table. “We were sitting right there for, like, four hours,” she says, waving a hand toward the offending table. “It was a nightmare.”

But sweet dreams have never really been her thing. Turning back to me, the 33-year-old playwright shares this advice for anyone interested in writing about girls and women: “Make it soulful. And big. Take it seriously. Don’t make it cute.” In plays such as Dance Nation, You Got Older, I’ll Never Love Again and Dirty Crusty, which is about to get its world premiere in Britain, Barron shows what it is like to live in an ungovernable (usually female) body with ungovernable (usually female) emotions. Beauty and cruelty collide, as do desire and pain.

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