The first time I saw the actor Jayden Key, he was kneeling in the hot, dry grass of a park in downtown Houston, smiling through Texas sweat, eyes as painterly blue and hair as immaculate blond as a World War II-era German propaganda poster child. It was summer 2017 on a weeknight, a quarter hour
Pulitzer Prize-Winnng Sam Shepard‘s CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS displays the lives of the working-class Tate family as they navigate everything from suffocating debt, to teenage crime, to marital distress and back again. Checking the fridge for food (that is never there) is a regular routine-turned-ritual in this household that is deteriorating from the inside out.