Fool for Love
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To: Saturday, 9 September 2006
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Synopsis
A brilliant, sexually charged and violently passionate drama about the impossibility of love and the trips of the family. Set in a seedy, claustrophobic motel room on the barren outskirts of the Mojave desert, this is high octane stuff - adult and thrilling, poetic and astonishing. Fool for Love is a story of two powerless people who love each other. Their love has nothing to do with romance and everything to do with the ravenous monster of desire and the dangerous energy of caged animals.
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16 June 2006
“Greek tragedy set in the Mid-West” is how the director Lindsay Posner describes Sam Shepard’s powerful, intense short play Fool for Love (1983) which arrives at the Apollo like a disturbing message in a bottle from a distant shore.
Shepard has always seemed less commercial than his contemporary David Mamet, and Fool for Love is the only play of his to be seen in the West End - over 20 years ago, a National Theatre production starring the late Ian Charleson and Julie Walters transferred for a sold-out season. Posner’s revival is immeasurably superior to that version. In the casting of two non-English actors – the Los Angeles film star and rock singer Juliette Lewis, and the New Zealander Martin Henderson – as the half-siblings, “cousins” and incestuous lovers May and Eddie, he rescues Shepard from the English coyness that makes him merely exotic.
Eddie, a rodeo rider and stuntman, has driven thousands of miles to find ...
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217.196.231.33) - 9 August 2006:
Pointless. Just utterly pointless. Why did anyone bother?...
Cast
Juliette Lewis (May)
Martin Henderson (Eddie)
Larry Lamb
Joe Duttine
Creative
Sam Shepard (Author)
Clare Lawrence (Producer)
Anna Waterhouse (for Out of the Blue Productions) (Producer)
Lindsay Posner (Director)
Bunny Christie (Design)
Bunny Christie (Costume)
Fergus O'Hare (Sound)
Mark Henderson (Lighting)
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