Fool for Love

'Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek tragedy. Like ancient classical drama, too, the action is at once brief and relentless. By the end of the 90-minute play you feel you have lived through a cataclysm. This is a tremendous play, bleak but savagely funny, apparently naturalistic yet also resonant and dreamlike. ' Daily Telegraph. Fool for Love. is accompanied in this volume by The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing his Wife. , a comic operetta by Sam Shepard and Catherine Stone, which takes an irreverent view of American heroes and heroics.