Curse of the Starving Class

This evening, I was fortunate enough to join a few friends and my sister in attending the play Curse of the Starving Class, performed at the American Conservatory Theater in SF. The performance was stunning. Actors were brilliant. After the play, I couldn't help but wonder, is this what our lives are about? Does everything fall apart again? Not necessarily...

A dark satire by Pulitzer Prize winner and Academy Award nominee Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class is at once hilarious and profound, frighteningly true, and delightfully surreal. In a newly revised staging by bold, young American director Peter DuBois, the new artistic director of Boston's Huntington Theatre Company, A.C.T. follows a malnourished and rather bizarre family searching for freedom, security, and their piece of the American pie. As their delusions of a better life fall apart around them, so does their farmhouse and the myth of America it embodies.