Curse of the Starving Class
20 March - 11 April
This show has ended
I'm going into crime. It's the only thing that pays these days
NEW - production photos from Curse of the Starving Class. With the music of Blueflint - myspacecom/blueflint:
On a run-down Californian farmstead, at the edge of the desert and within migrating distance of the Mexican border, an alcoholic husband and a philandering wife are each scheming to sell off their family home without the other’s knowledge. Meanwhile their children - idealistic cynic Wesley and rebellious teenager Emma - are struggling to come to terms with the harsh and bizarre reality of the world they've been born into.
Our trailer for Curse of the Starving Class - starring Christopher Brandon as Wesley. With the music of Blueflint - myspacecom/blueflint. (Slow connection? Here's a lower res version)
Debt, stolen dreams and a fear of the future fuel the family's behaviour as they betray and second guess their meagre values, and each other, trying to achive the better lives they imagine for themselves.
An interview with Christopher Fairbank and Carla Mendonça who star in Curse of the Starving Class. (Slow connection? Here's a lower res version)
Behind Shepard's look at the corrupting power of money and the all-consuming lure of corporation is a wickedly funny portrait of a family in decline, teetering on the edge of poverty, sanity and society itself.
Shepard's work explores similar themes to playwrights such as Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill, but through more contemporary eyes, and with a brash, raw energy. The drama is underpinned by a scathing sense of humour, with characters who are living, breathing contradictions of themselves, deranged and uncivilised, hysterical in the face of tragedy, and doomed despite their best efforts to survive in the world.
Please note, this show contains nudity.
Press quotes:
"...a brave and fiercely energetic piece..."
The Scotsman - FOUR STARS
"...a bleak, slyly funny evening..."
The List - FOUR STARS
"Gut-bustingly funny and heartrendingly bleak..."
Evening News - FOUR STARS
"...unsettlingly funny... ...brutal and gripping..."
Metro - FOUR STARS
"...oddly prescient for these recession-blighted times..."
The Herald - FOUR STARS
"...great cascades of language... [a] first rate cast..."
The Times - FOUR STARS
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