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Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard

CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
By Sam Shepard

Produced & Directed by Murat Ozcan
Assistant Directed by Kira Kull
Stage Managed by Erin Page
Movement Director Zëk Stewart
Music & Sound by Carlos "Storm" Martinez
Set Designed by Hannah Cook
Lighting Design by Saúl Ulerio
Visual Engineered by Ulysses Popple
Videoed by Chris Thume
Costume Designed by Valerie Boisseau and Sara Fitzpatrick
Makeup Application by Melissa Crutchfield

CAST
(In Order of Appearance)

WESLEY - Donovan Mendelovitz
ELLA - Kristen Lynch
EMMA - Charly Bivona
TAYLOR - Stephen Gleason*
WESTON - Brian Kelly
ELLIS - Mike Greaney
MALCOLM - Maurice Geddie
EMERSON - Tim Dougherty
SLATER -Samuel Finnegan Cutler

*Appearing Courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

Thursday, March 22 7:30pm
Friday, March 23 7:30pm
Saturday, March 24 7:30pm
Sunday, March 25 7:30pm

The Mark ODonnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center
160 Schermerhorn St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Between Hoyt & Smith

Intended for audiences 16+

A darkly comic exploration of the American family psyche, this Obie Award-winning play is an expository look at the four members of the Tate family who live on a half-neglected farm in rural California. Having driven his family deep into debt, an alcoholic father strives for an impossible redemption in a home his wife has struggled to maintain for so long. Meanwhile, their two children teeter on the brink of adolescence and adulthood, revealing the role their parents dysfunction plays in their escalated loss of innocence. Trapped in a grotesque farce of the American dream, we see these four characters seduced by credit and developers, dreaming of escape while constantly facing the reality of hunger. The play examines the death of the American family as hardship clouds all interaction and any mutual understanding is lost.

CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.