Fool For Love

Fool for Love is Sam Shepard’s most unsettling play telling the story of a struggle, mostly of words, between two on-again/off-again lovers. Set in the barren outskirts of the New Mexico desert at a seedy Motel – May has taken refuge in her flight from Eddie, a rough-spoken rodeo performer, with whom she has had a passionate love/hate relationship. Their detrimental symbiotic natures become apparent as the accusations fly; making matters worse a young man arrives to court May, all while their caustic situation is commented upon by a mysterious, ghostly figure watching from the edge of the stage.

“Sam Shepard’s purest and most beautiful play.”
– The New York Daily News