"FOOL FOR LOVE"- About The Play

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Sunday, May 5, 2024

Performance dates: February 12, 13, 14- 8pm
February 15- 2pm

Performance venue: Linesight Theatre
143 N. Rock Island, 3rd Floor

"FOOL FOR LOVE": CAST

"FOOL FOR LOVE": CREW

"FOOL FOR LOVE": HOMEPAGE

THEATRE ON CONSIGNMENT HOMEPAGE

FILMS ON CONSIGNMENT HOMEPAGE

FOOL FOR LOVE

“Fool For Love” premiered in San Francisco in 1982 before moving to New York. Its original staging, featuring Ed Harris and Kathy Baker, was directed by author Sam Shepard and went on to win the Obie Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. Of this original production, BackStage noted: "Fool For Love is certainly one of the best plays of our time. Fool For Love may very well be one of the great plays of the late twentieth century." Shepard then adapted his script into a screenplay for acclaimed filmmaker Robert Altman, whose 1985 film version featured Shepard, Kim Basinger, Randy Quaid, and Harry Dean Stanton. Now, Theatre on Consignment continues its third season with a production of this modern classic of experimental theatre.

May (Meridith Jones) is waiting her date (Lonny Quattlebaum) in a run-down American motel, when an old flame (Jason Miller) turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. A critical and popular success, this masterfully constructed work brings searing intensity and rare theatrical excitement to its probing, yet sharply humorous study of love, hate and the dying myths of the Old West. David Bailey co-starred.

“Fool For Love” was preceded by the short play “Red Cross”, written by Shepard in 1966. This odd, humorous, and strangely touching story of the peculiar relationship between a lonely man and the maid who cleans his room featured Nathan Boren, Cherice Henderson, and Rebekah Dryden.

The plays were presented on February 12-15, 2004, directed by Mac Welch. Robert Thomas was assistant director/ stage manager, with Jason Bailey as producer and set designer. Prop and costume design was by Brenda Wakefield; Amber Malott was sound designer. Nathan Boren was technical director.

See production stills from Fool For Love.

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