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A poignant chronicle of the dehumanizing process that accompanies homelessness. Told through the lives of four people—two men and two women, related by blood and family ties -- who with every reason to expect more of their lives find themselves together in a city shelter. Fornes' language and direction convey the slow withering away of energy; the loss of memory and personality that afflict the homeless. Hunger is a work of stark realism—an intensely quiet work from one whom Susan Sontag has described as "conducting with exemplary tenacity and scrupulousness a unique career in the American theater." Commissioned by New American Radio.