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Ongoing. “Ceramics” presented by the Ceramics Program of the Office of the Arts. Main floor, Hilles Library, 59 Shepard St. Free...
...great American plays are about families. The comedies, like You Can't Take It with You, celebrate the ability of disparate relatives to unify against the outside world. The tragedies, like A Long Day's Journey into Night, mourn the often unbridgeable chasm between intimacy and true affection. Sam Shepard, the most protean of active American playwrights, has written about revolution and land reform and organized crime and the decline of the West (in both the Spenglerian and the John Wayne senses), but his laconic truisms sound most universal when he focuses on the tightly confined agonies of blood...
Curse of the Starving Class, a 1977 Shepard work, has been powerfully revived off-Broadway in a production that demonstrates it may be his best play. Shepard charts with savage humor the cruelties exchanged among a grindingly poor rural family. Slaughtering their animals has inured them to violence. Sharing the isolation of farm life has made them eager to sneak off. Knowing one another's sore spots has only rendered their aim more deadly. The plot resembles the save-the-homestead movies released last year: the farm is hopelessly insolvent but is sought by developers. Shepard, however, does not indulge...
...Shepard's faintly surreal yet lyrical text demands extraordinary acting. The players must give credibility to moments of farce, such as a refrigerator filled with nothing but artichokes, or a brother urinating on his sister's chart for a 4-H science project. Yet they must also preserve enough dignity to bring off sustained poetic speeches, including a climactic account of a midair battle between an eagle and a cat who doom each other to a fatal fall. The showiest part is the father (Eddie Jones), a brutal alcoholic who undergoes an overnight conversion, too late, into a sober...
Ongoing. “Ceramics” presented by the Ceramics Program of the Office of the Arts. Main floor, Hilles Library, 59 Shepard Street. Free...