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Curse of the Starving Class at Theatre Raleigh

Dates: (11/6/2024 - 11/17/2024 )

Theatre:

Theatre Raleigh

Theatre Raleigh

6638 Old Wake Forest Road
Raleigh,NC 27616

Phone: (919) 832-9997

Tickets: $33-$50

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The setting is a farmhouse in the American West, inhabited by a family who has enough to eat but not enough to satisfy the other hungers that bedevil them. The father is a drunk; the mother a frowzy slattern; the daughter precocious beyond her years; and the son a deranged idealist. As the family decides to sell the house to raise money, the mother talks of running off to Europe or Mexico; the father sobers up and tries to take control; the daughter is blown up in the family car; and the son is left brutalized and bloodied. In the end the characters become a metaphor for the underside of American life—benighted innocents pursuing a dream that remains beyond their reach. Winner of the 1977 Obie Award for Best New American Play.



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