Reviews for Fool for Love and Other Plays

The average rating for Fool for Love and Other Plays based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-19 00:00:00 Jeffrey Frajman These are (mostly) swirly surrealistic melodramas cooked to medium rare psychological taste for to outsource some brain twist imagery. Goon-ball broke-down characters doin' schemes as "Auggie March" might say. Too, fit nicely into a Denis Johnson short. Cowboy Junkies ropin' phantasy. Hehe, go ahead, build the wall, nuts and rapists will fly in anyway, may as well throw a welcome party an pass the pipe. Pay fer play!

Review # 2 was written on 2014-02-24 00:00:00 Jim Johnson Sam Shepard will have to slug it out with Lanford Wilson for Best American Playwright of the last quarter of the 20th Century. Whatever the outcome Shepard is in contention for his startling ability to delineate the various degrees of obscene psychic cruelty that family members are capable of inflicting on one another, and to put this on the stage in a way that's not only palpable, but riveting, and even comic -- without ever diminishing our comprehension of the horrors being perpetrated. I have no idea if Shepard's plays meet the definition of "tragedy" (and Thank God I don't have to take a position on that). But one thing I know is that when I see, read, or hear one of his plays I come away with a severe case of almost giddy Catharsis -- which is, I suppose, what brings me back to him again and again.