Fool for Love
by Sam Shepard
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An exploration of a passionate love/hate relationship between a cowboy drifter and his long time love, who has taken refuge at a seedy motel in the New Mexican desert.Tags
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An isolated lonely place with a vulnerable woman. A sinister guy comes on the scene. What will happen? This play is so hard to care about. There are better texts with similar themes. I think I just like a play with a story.I wanted to like this. Good roles, but better plays with similar theme make much more of a story. Try The Petrified Forest. Try The Rainmaker. Maybe even Bus Stop .
Half the fun of this play is in the ending, so don't read spoilers beforehand! The relationship "Fool for Love" explores is such a fascinating one; distantly intimate, passionate, filled with love and hate and lust and all the things that make the world go around. Definitely read if you get a chance!
One of my all-time favorite plays.
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Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III on an army base in Illinois on November 5, 1943. He briefly studied agriculture at Mount San Antonio College, but dropped out to move to New York in 1962. He wrote more than 55 plays during his lifetime. His first play was produced off-off-Broadway when he was 19 years old and he won the first of his show more 8 Obie Awards when he was 23 years old. His plays included Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, The Late Henry Moss, Heartless, and A Particle of Dread. He received the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1978. He was an actor for both film and television. His films included Days of Heaven, The Right Stuff, and Baby Boom. He also appeared in the Netflix series Bloodline. He wrote or co-wrote several screenplays including Far North and Renaldo and Clara with Bob Dylan. He also wrote songs with John Cale and Bob Dylan including Brownsville Girl. He wrote several books including Cruising Paradise and Motel Chronicles. He died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Fool for love
- Original publication date
- 1983
- Related movies
- Fool for Love (1985 | IMDb)
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