Fool for Love Summary
Sam Shepard

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Fool for Love Summary

Sam Shepard's Fool for Love is arguably the playwright's best known play. Focusing, as many of Shepard' s plays do, on the dark side of life in the West, Fool for Love was first produced at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in February, 1983, before moving to Off-Broadway at the Circle Repertory Theatre in May of that year. Shepard himself directed these original productions, winning Obie Awards for his writing and directing as...

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Sam Shepard Biographies (5)

Sam Shepard

1,412 words, approx. 5 pages

Sam Shepard (Samuel Shepard Rogers VII; born 1943) began his career as a playwright in the lively off-off-Broadway scene of the 1960s and became one of the United States' most prolific and acclaimed d... Read more

Sam Shepard

3,756 words, approx. 13 pages

"Sam Shepard's perennial theme isn't nostalgia for the Old West or depicting the tortured artist in society," wrote Michael Green of Backstage West, "not even dysfunctional families (though they're pa... Read more

Sam Shepard

5,235 words, approx. 18 pages

Sam Shepard is considered by many critics to be the most important playwright in the Off-Broadway theatre movement. His unique blend of styles--using mythical American heroes, rock and roll music, poe... Read more

Sam Shepard

5,393 words, approx. 18 pages

Although Sam Shepard has written more than forty plays and five screenplays, including collaborating on Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970) and Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas (1984); has direc... Read more

Sam Shepard

6,600 words, approx. 23 pages

November 5, 1943. Samuel "Steve" Shepard Rogers "...plunged into the world head first and, although covered with blood, my attitude was very friendly...."My name came down through seven generations of... Read more

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