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How will director Bs production differ from director As ten years ago?
I am an important piece of literature.
By watching me, you are having a meaningful cultural experience.
Sam Shepards ugly, dreamy 1978 playCurse of the Starving Classshouldnt be boring.
It should heave and churn with bitter discontent and sloppy ambition, delusion and shame.
We can see them and understand their symbolic significance, but our stomachs never really turn.
This house, said the shows beginning, is already destroyed.
The very walls hang over the characters like swords of Damocles.
They are playing the Tate family (et al.
I was lying there on my back, he says, I could smell the avocado blossoms.
I could hear the coyotes.
I could hear stock cars squealing down the street.
The atmosphere around him hardly shifts.
Yet one is hiding inside the other.
She performs a whole scene covered in mud and somehow never actually seems dirty.
Our guts havent been invited to the party, and so, like the Tates, we stay hungry.
Curse of the Starving Classis at the Signature Theatre Company through June 2.
