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Just how poor are these Tates?
But this staging doesnt flesh out that idea.
Its more interested in taking a cast of familiar names and putting them through a series of provocations.
The last part of that description might be the hardest to nail, and Slater doesnt get there.
Hoffman proves himself to be remarkably game, if similarly unfocused.
Wesley has to pee on his sisters school project and strut around the stage fully nude.
This may be a recurring problem with revivals of Shepard, as my colleague Sara Holdren notedwith the lastCursego-round.
And big choices, one after the other, get exhausting fast.
Theyre local characters entangled in the Tates affairs who, in the second act, double as heavies.
To that end, the most distinctive performance in thisCurseis all natural.
The Tates have a sheep they tote onstage in the midst of their various arguments.
How could you compete with a stage presence like that?
Curse of the Starving Classis at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
