Fool For Love
by Sam Shepard

Name: Fool For Love
Brand: Sam Shepard
SKU: 9780822204152
Rating: 3.91 (1697 reviews)

BroadwayOff-BroadwayWest End

Fool For Love Book Cover — Fool For Love Cover

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

75 minsPresent DayInterior SetContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesAmerican

Awards & Recognition

Obie AwardPulitzer Prize

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	Gender	Age	Description
Eddie	—	—	—
Martin	—	—	—
The Old Man	—	—	—
May	—	—	—

Videos

Fool for Love Scene

Publication

PublisherDramatists Play Service

Year1984

BindingPaperback

Pages72

PlaceNew York, N.Y. (440 Park Ave. S., New York 10016)

LanguageEnglish

ISBN-139780822204152

ISBN-100822204150

LCCN84211005

LCCPS3569.H394 F58 1984

DCC812/.54

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).

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