Peter Gill, playwright and theatre director
Fool for Love
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Julie Walters and Ian CharlesonFool for Love

by Sam Shepard

National Theatre

Cottesloe Theatre, 4 October 1984

Length: about 1 hour, 25 minutes. There is no interval

Setting: a motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert

The play was first staged in San Francisco in February 1983 and is currently running in New York.

The production transferred to the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, where it opened on 4 February 1985.

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

plays:

1964:
Up to Thursday; Dog; Rocking Chair; Cowboys; The Rock Garden.
1965:
4-H Club; Icarus's Mother; Chicago.
1966:
Red Cross; Fourteen Hundred Thousand.
1967:
la Turista; Melodrama Play; Forensic and the Navigators; Cowboys 2.
1969:
The Holy Ghostly; The Unseen Hand; Operation Sidewinder.
1970:
Shaved Splits.
1971:
Mad Dog Blues; Cowboy Mouth; Back Bog Beast Bait.
1972:
Tooth of Crime.
1973:
Blue Bitch.
1974:
Geography of a Horse Dreamer.
1975:
Action; Killer's Head.
1976:
Suicide in Bb.
1977:
Angel City; Curse of the Starving Class.
1978:
Seduced; Buried Child.
1979:
Tongues; Savage/love.
1980:
True West.
1983:
Fool for love.

screenplays:

Zabriskie Point.
Paris, Texas.

prose:

Rolling Thunder Log Book.
Hawk Moon.
Motel Chronicles.
Credits
May Julie Walters
Eddie Ian Charleson
The Old Man Tom Watson
Martin David Troughton
Director Peter Gill
Designer Alison Chitty
Lighting Stephen Wentworth
Staff Director John Burgess
Production Manager Jason Barnes
Stage Manager Trish Montemuro
Deputy Stage Manager Jane Suffling
Assistant Stag Manager Tim Devereaux
Sound Anthony Waldron
Assistant to the Lighting Director Ian Williams
 

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