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Fool for Love

Riverside Studios, Outer London
From: Tuesday, 26th January 2010
To: Sunday, 21 March 2010

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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.

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 29 January 2010

It’s a very hard play to do, Sam Shepard’s 1983 Fool for Love, and it’s only fair to salute the courage of Sadie Frost and Libertines founder member Carl Barat in taking on a pair of sibling lovers tearing each other the shreds in a motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert.

But Neil Sheppeck’s production for the Love and Madness ensemble - opening a season to be followed with Richard III (Sadie Frost as Lady Anne) and a devised play about William Morris - never does much more than scratch the surface. It’s a noisy ninety minutes, but it’s not dense, sexy or gut-churning.

Barat’s Eddie is lonesome rodeo rider and stuntman who has driven thousands of miles to track down Frost’s May, a highly strung termagant in a slash of a red dress who is working as a short-order cook and waiting for her new boyfriend to take her out to the movies.

The only movie she sees is the one she’s ...

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