Event Listing - Theater
Thu Sep 11, 2008 - Sat Sep 13, 2008

Sam Shepard's

Fool For Love


Website
$10 - $35
Tickets

Location
Date and Time
The Actors Theatre
855 Bush St
San Francisco, CA 94108
district: San Francisco

Thu Sep 11, 2008 (8pm)
Fri Sep 12, 2008 (8pm)
Sat Sep 13, 2008 (8pm)

Description
"Shepard wrote Fool for Love shortly after breaking up with his wife O-Lan to be with Jessica Lange. In a letter to his friend and virtuoso collaborator, Joe Chaikin, Shepard described his play, Fool for Love as "the outcome of all this tumultuous feeling I've been going through this past year…it's a very emotional play and in some ways embarrassing for me to witness but somehow necessary at the same time." Few writers manage to elevate higher than the sensationalism of confessional drama, but Shepard's allegory for his own loss and love rises above and provides us with an intensely powerful personal drama that draws us in with its manic depiction of ill-fated love."