num_pages: 72
description: A major work by one of our theatre's most respected and celebrated writers, this award-winning examination of the dislocations of contemporary American society was produced with great success in both London and New York.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.
language: English
title: Curse of the Starving Class
titlecomplete: Curse of the Starving Class
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, American, Drama, Read For School, Classics, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 945
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Obie
category: Best New American Play
publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.