Curse of the Starving Class by Sam Shepard
May 11 -- June 24, 2000 at the Jack Oakes Theatre in Portland, OR.
WESLEY -- Tom Moorman
ELLA -- Lani Miller
EMMA -- Lindsay Thomas
TAYLOR -- Stone Brooks
WESTON -- Phil Brown
ELLIS -- Russ Cootey*
MALCOLM -- Malcolm Van Bennett
EMERSON -- Eddie Feigel
SLEATOR -- Geoff Bergman* The role of Ellis was played by Mark Friendly from June 8 to June 24.
LIGHTING DESIGN -- Jeffrey Woods
HOUSE MANAGER -- Nicole Turley
SOUND DESIGN AND OPERATION -- Matt Russell
LIGHTING OPERATOR -- Matt Russell
COSTUME COORDINATOR -- Lani Miller
SET DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION -- Cast and crew
WINDOW LANDSCAPE -- Lindsay Thomas
B&W PUBLICITY PHOTOS -- Marshall Serna
THANKS -- Glenn and Judee Russell; Guy Peter Oakes; Dave Demke; David Seitz; Nicole Turley; Daniel Cook; Ingrid Carlson; Roderick Garrison; Archer's Precision Sheet Metal; Linda Thomas; Tami Mordica; Michelle Malkey; and most importantly, Lamb Shepherd.SYNOPSIS. The setting is a farmhouse somewhere in the American West, inhabited by a family who have enough to eat, but not enough more to satisfy the other hungers which bedevil them. The father is a drunk; the mother a frowzy slattern; the daughter precocious beyond her years; and the son a deranged idealist who wants something better but has no clear idea of how to attain it. The action is filled with changes and counter-changes as the family decides to sell the house to raise money; the mother talks of running off to Europe or Mexico, but ends up asleep on the kitchen table; the father sobers up and tries to take control; the daughter is blown up in the family car; and the son is brutalized and bloodied by the evil forces besetting them. In the end of the play its people become a metaphor for the underside of American life -- the benighted innocents forever pursuing a diminished dream, and the illusion of fulfillment which remains ever beyond their reach. (Dramatists Play Service)
PRODUCTION NOTES. Well, this was a real rollar-coaster ride, but you'll have to wait to hear the details. Soon, though.
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