Fool For Love
by Sam Shepard
Highlights
Awards & Recognition
Finalist: 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 1984 Obie Award for Best New American Play
Synopsis
THE STORY: The scene is a stark motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert.
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.
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Press Reviews
"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."
— The New Yorker
"Vintage Sam Shepard desperation-at-the-edge-of-the-desert look."
— The Washington Post
"A powerful addition to Shepard’s impressive output."
— Curtain Up
Characters
| Character |
|---|
Eddie |
Martin |
The Old Man |
May |
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Publication
Fool For Love is a American play written by Sam Shepard and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, N.Y. (440 Park Ave. S., New York 10016) (1984).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle.
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Dramatists Play Service · 1984 · 72 pp
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Restrictions: Major Markets Plus (US) / Standard Plus Add'l Postcodes (UK)
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