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    Curse of the Starving Class

    R1995 · Drama · 1h 42m
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  3. Drama. Setting. A derelict farm house in the California Central Valley. Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Some critics consider it part of a Family Trilogy that includes Buried Child (1979) and True West (1980). [1]

    • Thomas P. Adler, Sam Shepard
    • 1976
  4. May 5, 1995 · Curse of the Starving Class: Directed by J. Michael McClary. With James Woods, Kathy Bates, Randy Quaid, Henry Thomas. Sam Shepard's coming of age drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk, and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left of their family life.

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    • J. Michael McClary
    • 1995-05-05
  5. In Curse of the Starving Class, the unnamed family on which the play centers are all affected by their unidentifiable sensation that a frontier has disappeared. They live in southern California, a place that was initially a true frontier and then in the depression became the land of dreams for poor migrants from the Dust Bowl and the South .

  6. Study Guide for Curse of the Starving Class. Curse of the Starving Class study guide contains a biography of Sam Shepard, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

  7. May 20, 2019 · Emotional Malnourishment in “Curse of the Starving Class” The playwright Sam Shepard’s matter-of-fact observations about where his characters stand in the world tell us so much about the...

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  8. Curse of the Starving Class - The Sam Shepard Web Site. Playbill/Posters. Synopsis. (Three acts) This Obie Award-winning play, a darkly comic exploration of the American family psyche, is an expository look at four family members of the Tate family who live on a Californian farm.

  9. An alcoholic farmer (James Woods) and his wife (Kathy Bates) try to escape poverty, but their children know it's hopeless.

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