May is hiding out in a run-down motel room when her former lover, Eddie, shows up. He’s driven more than 2,000 miles to take her back but May makes it clear she has no desire to be with him. She has a new life, including a new man who happens to be on the way to pick her up for a date. Omnipresent throughout the play is the mysterious Old Man, who only interacts with Eddie or May when the other is out of the room. Fool for Love has all the combustible tension of a Sam Shepard play, with challenging lead roles that require explosive chemistry between the actors. Shepard calls for the play to be performed “relentlessly, without a break” on a unit set representing a low-rent motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
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