Fool For Love
by Sam Shepard

Broadway Off-Broadway West End
Fool For Love Book Cover
Fool For Love Cover

Highlights

75 mins Present Day Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American

Awards & Recognition

Obie Award Pulitzer 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
Eddie
Martin
The Old Man
May

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Publication

Year 1984
Binding Paperback
Pages 72
Place New York, N.Y. (440 Park Ave. S., New York 10016)
Language English
ISBN-13 9780822204152
ISBN-10 0822204150
LCCN 84211005
LCC PS3569.H394 F58 1984
DCC 812/.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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