This play captures the profundity and profanity of friendship incredibly well. Completely believable characters and friend dynamics. The dialogue is sharp throughout, and yet the things left unsaid are extremely eloquent. Very well done.

Heartbreaking, authentic, and deeply compassionate, Carry Me Home captures the complicated bonds of lifelong friendship with remarkable honesty. Barley deftly balances nostalgia, humor, and grief, creating a moving portrait of loss, reconciliation, and the ways the people we've lost continue to shape those left behind.

Caden Barley’s enviable talent for creating distinctive and compelling characters is in full force in this poignant and perceptive short play. The faded boyhood camaraderie of these three young men reuniting on their hometown playground is perfectly captured in both the comfortable joshing and the tenuous ill ease. When a painful tragedy is revealed, we are reminded of the universal truth that you can’t go home again. And yet, somehow, we also must. A beautiful, honest piece of writing.