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PRAISE FOR
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
JEFF RECOMMENDED
"RECOMMENDED ... In Kyra Lewandowski's explosive production ... Michelle Lilly O'Brien's set perfectly suggests decay, while the cast deftly capture Shepard's mix of heightened realism, black comedy, and scenery-demolishing violence."
- Zac Thompson
Chicago Reader
"New Leaf, continuing its string of solid enactments of challenging plays ... navigates a powerful, cogent production ... Victoria Gilbert's feminine and bitter Ella is darkly entertaining, and a formidable John Gray shrewdly modulates the long windup and devastating pitch of Weston's alcoholic rage"
- Megan Powell
TimeOut Chicago
"... [the] charged performances and palpable pathos are riveting. Gruff, frightening, volatile, drunk and large enough to be dangerous, ... [John] Gray's performance is absolutely phenomenal ... this production really is excellent."
- Julienne Bilker
Chicagoist
"Michelle Lilly O'Brien's set [is] a marvelous mini-symphony of squalor"
- Kerry Reid
Chicago Tribune
"There is a lot of important information that is left unsaid in Curse, leaving the audience unsettled and probing in the dark. Lewandowski and her team understand this critical aspect - they know to close doors as they open windows."
- Barry Eitel
Chicago Theatre Blog
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2009 - 2010 SEASON
How do the stories we tell rewrite what we become?
APRIL 15 - MAY 22, 2010
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
by Sam Shepard
directed by Kyra Lewandowski
Under one splintering roof in the desolation of the California desert, four lone wolves try to pull themselves up by bootstraps that keep breaking, seeking to escape the prisons they've constructed in Sam Shepard's blistering exploration of disease, poverty, and selfishness. Curse of the Starving Class marks Artist-in-Residence Kyra Lewandowski's directorial debut, as she helms this presentation of a script recently revised in honor of the play's 30th anniversary.
EVERY THIRD SATURDAY AT 1 PM
TREEHOUSE READINGS
This year New Leaf is opening up our home and building on our years-long season selection tradition of reading plays that excite us aloud together. Join us as we explore new and classic plays in a friendly open-format reading. Also be sure to subscribe to the Treehouse Readings Podcast, featuring recordings of original work in our unique performance space.
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