SOURCE: ";Where Has Sam Shepard Led His Audience?,"; in The New York Times, June 5, 1983, pp. 3, 16.

Fool for Love was first presented at Magic Theatre in San Francisco in February 1983, with Shepard serving as the play's director, and this production later played the Circle Repertory Theatre in New York City. In the following review af one of the New York performances, Kerr criticizes Shepard as a ";cult dramatist"; whose work, despite its skilled presentation, addresses only a select audience and a limited range of topics.

During the more than 20 years that Sam Shepard has been writing for the theater he has gradually acquired what is called a cult audience. What is a cult audience? It is a band of faithful playgoers whose tastes are identical or at least strongly similar to one another's and who respond well, as a group, to the rather private and deliberately enigmatic signals being...