In Fool For Love, situated at a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave
Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around in a room in a
relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections and
dreams, multiple versions of a fierce and fatal love story are told.
The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife, another
kind of love story in the form of a comic operetta, takes a distaff view
of the Southwest's legendary cowpuncher and his mate Slue-foot Sue, with
irreverent commentary on American heroes and heroics.
No one knows better than Sam Shepard that the true American West is gone
forever, but there may be no writer alive more gifted at reinventing it
out of pure literary air. -Frank Rich, The New York Times
Mr. Shepard is the most deeply serious humorist of the American theater,
and a poet with no use whatever for the 'poetic.' He brings fresh news
of love, here and now, in all its potency and deviousness and
foolishness, and of many other matters as well. -Edith Oliver, The New
Yorker
Sam Shepard (1943) is a playwright, actor, author, screen writer, and
director whose work is performed on and off Broadway and in other
theaters across the country. In 1979, he received the Pulitzer Prize for
Drama for his play Buried Child. In 1983, he was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff. His other
famous works include True West, A Lie of the Mind, and Curse of the
Starving Class.
