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Fool For Love
- BY Sam Shepard
- DIRECTED BY Ann Woodhead
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SHOW DATES
06/03/2027 thru 07/11/2027
- PREVIEW DATES 1st Thursday
- OPENING GALA 1st Saturday
- SUNDAY MATINEES @2pm on 6/13, 6/20, 6/27, 7/11
In a stark motel room, May, a disheveled young woman, sits dejectedly on a rumpled bed while Eddie, a rough-spoken rodeo performer, crouches in a corner fiddling with his riding gear. They cannot get along with, or without, one another.
Enter a hapless young man who stops by to take May to the movies and becomes the butt of Eddie’s funny but humiliating jokes. A ghostly old man sits in a rocking chair at the side of the stage, sipping whiskey and commenting wryly on what he observes.
Written by the iconic Sam Shepard, winner of 10 Obies, a Pulitzer Prize, countless Drama Desk, Emmy, and Academy Award nominations, the result is a beautiful, poetic movement of the depths of love in these unique souls.
Sam Shepard’s purest and most beautiful play.
It is as mysterious and unsettling—now you see it, now you don’t—as spare and, incidentally, as funny as anything he has ever done.
Vintage Sam Shepard desperation-at-the-edge-of-the-desert look.
A powerful addition to Shepard’s impressive output.
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FOOL FOR LOVE is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York