A Pulp Revival Of FOOL FOR LOVE Comes To The Bull 3/4-3/22
By: Gabrielle Sierra Feb. 02, 2009
The Bull presents a pulp revival of Fool for Love wherein two lovers, Eddie and May, trapped in a motel room that only exists on the horizon of the desert, battle to the death of their love in order to escape their lurid past.
Fool for Love is arguably the hippest love story to hit the stage in three decades...yet recent renditions have lacked the comedy needed to lighten the weighty themes this play provides. We prefer to take it one step further into the brutal surrealism the play already offers. The characters in our version of Fool for Love are just that, characters.
We see the play as an oft times amusing fight, not an opportunity for soul-searching pragmatism. Face it: violent, tumultuous relationships are often times sexy and our human experience with love is often times opposed to social convention. Hence, we offer a pulp version of Fool for Love. Once the Living Theatre heard our vision and agreed that Sam Shepard was one of our most esteemed American playwrights, they happily agreed to co-present our revival of Fool for Love. Our rendition is joyful, sexy and mean. We hope you will join us for this knock-down, drag 'em out fight!
FOOL FOR LOVE features Katie Bender, Kevin Shaffer, Bill Weeden*, and Jonathan Wilde.
The creative team for FOOL FOR LOVE includes William G. McGarvy (Scenic Designer), Cornell Mcintosh (Sound Designer), Tod Michaels (Costume Designer), Christina Watanabe (Lighting Designer), and Dan Zisson (Fight Choreographer).
The production, produced by The Bull, will play at The Living Theatre (21 Clinton Street) March 4-22, Tuesday through Saturday at 8pm and Sunday matinees at 2pm. Tickets ($25) are available online at www.thelivingtheater.org.
Katherine Krause studied acting and directing at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she founded Subject to Change Theater Company. She finished her acting studies at G.A.T.E., NYC and continued on to study screenwriting at Their Productions and Arts Management at NYU SCPS while directing shows. She currently mentors in directing with Caymichael Patten. Recent credits include directing RTC's production of La Ronde at MTS and a staged reading of End Game hosted by NYU and Tisch's Drama Dept. BA/UW Madison.
The Bull is committed to presenting theatrical events tailored to the inhabitants of Lower Manhattan with the purpose of building a community of consistent theater-goers and an association of quality performances produced in Lower Manhattan. We serve those who want to drink in hand-crafted theatrics on the cheap and in a festive environment. We got together and decided theater should be entertaining and special, rather than exorbitant and thematically afraid.
Next up from The Bull: Katie Bender's A Night at the Magician, directed by Katherine Krause. Coming to Soho Rep, Fall 2009.
The Living Theatre The Clinton Street theater is the company's first permanent home since the closing of The Living Theatre on Third Street at Avenue C in 1993.The decision to return to the Lower East Side (at 19-21 Clinton Street, between Houston and Stanton Streets) reflects the company's continuing faith in the neighborhood as a vibrant center where the needs of some of the city's poorer people confront the ideas of the experimenters in art and politics who have settled in the area.
Photo: Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange
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