Curse Of The Starving Class
by Sam Shepard
Awards & Recognition
Winner! 1977 Obie Award for Best New American Play
What readers are saying
Readers appreciate the play's exploration of family dysfunction and its relevance to contemporary issues. Many commend Sam Shepard's writing style and the play's dark humor, as well as its surreal quality and powerful imagery. Some find the structure a bit unconventional, with certain monologues feeling unwieldy at times, but overall the responses are predominantly positive.
Synopsis
THE STORY: The setting is a farmhouse in the American West, inhabited by a family who has enough to eat but not enough to satisfy the other hungers that bedevil them.
The father is a drunk; the mother a frowzy slattern; the daughter precocious beyo
Characters
| Character |
|---|
MALCOM |
SLATER |
ELLA |
WESTON |
ELLIS |
EMERSON |
EMMA |
WESLEY |
TAYLOR |
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Curse Of The Starving Class is a American play written by Sam Shepard and published by Dramatists Play Service (1976).
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Dramatists Play Service · 1976 · 72 pp
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Restrictions: Major Markets Plus (US) / Standard Plus Add'l Postcodes (UK)
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