Curse of the Starving Class
Curse of the Starving Class Author: Sam Shepard
First Performance: 1978, New York
Published: 1976
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Living area of a farm on outskirts of a town, California, 1970s
Cast: 7m, 2f
Ella's husband Weston is a drunkard, who has lost his job and only comes home violent to sleep off his drinking bouts. Her son Wesley looks after the farm, while her daughter Emma, a teenager, dreams of escaping from her squalid home life. Ella plans to sell the farm and move with her children to Europe to start a new life, while Weston dreams of selling the farm and moving to Mexico. Ella stays out overnight with a lawyer Taylor while she prepares the sale of the farm. Meanwhile, Weston has already sold the farm to a nightclub owner Ellis for a price that barely covers Weston's heavy debts. A policeman...
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