Fool for Love

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Event Fool for Love
Venue St Martins Youth Arts Centre, South Yarra, VIC
First Date 21 November 1984
Opening Date 23 November 1984
Last Date 8 December 1984
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Description "Fool for Love is set in a stark motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert just east of Los Angeles, home of Hollywood and the American Dream. It is a tender, erotic and confronting love story between Eddie the rodeo cowboy and May his girl; both of them are drifters, searching for some sense of identity in the desert wasteland.

"Shepard's language is powerful and poetic, he creates a peculiar mixture of the ordinary and instantly recognisable, and the mythic and timeless. He touches upon our deepest mythologies, he exposes the fragility of longing, the power of obsession and the age-old question of fate versus free will.

"His characters are archetypes who owe as much to the popular iconography of advertising, comics, television and the movies, as they do to classic mythology. The rhythms of the play are cyclic and unrelenting, it has the dimension of a Greek tragedy and the humour of the best American satire, as it carries us swiftly to its sweet, brutal and inevitable conclusion."

Australian premiere.
Description Source Press Release
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Subjects Heterosexual Relationships
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Roy Baldwin Actor The Old Man
Joy Dunstan Actor May
Ross Williams Actor Martin
William Zappa Actor Eddie
Jennie Tate Designer
Lindy Davies Director
Sam Shepard Playwright
Works
Text Nationality United States of America
Production Nationality Australia
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Programme Dennis Wolanski Library collection at UNSW Library
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 31110