Magic Theatre Celebrates 50th Season with a Legacy Revival of Sam Shepard's FOOL FOR LOVE

Magic Theatre begins its 50th season with a legacy revival of Sam Shepard's award-winning drama Fool for Love, opening February 9th.

Fool for Love tells the story of two former lovers reunited in a run-down motel at the edge of the Mojave desert. The pair unearth the dark secrets of their tangled relationship in a gripping rodeo of violence and primal love. This explosive and timeless masterpiece first premiered at Magic Theatre in 1983 directed by Shepard and starring Ed Harris and Kathy Baker.

"The play came out of falling in love," said Shepard. "It's such a dumbfounding experience - in one way you wouldn't trade it for the world, in another way it's absolute hell."

During his decade as playwright-in-residence at Magic Theatre Sam Shepard developed and premiered seven of his greatest works, including Savage/Love, True West and Fool for Love. "Magic is thrilled to be bringing Fool for Love back home thirty-four years later, as the fifth event in our Sheparding America: March to Fifty series," said Artistic Director Loretta Greco. "Sam's been writing for five decades. There's no one who's done it for as long, in such varied forms, in such an astounding, brilliant, and imperfect way."

Greco previously directed Buried Child in 2013 and A Lie of the Mind in 2015. "Sam's work springs from the terrain from which he's from," Greco explained. "Fool for Love is a pressure cooker of desperate intimacy, the mythic fall of the American cowboy, and the marks a father leaves on his children. It's compact, muscular, and wickedly funny."

ABOUT THE PLAY

CREATIVE TEAM: Written by Sam Shepard, Directed by Loretta Greco, Scenic and Costume Design by Andrew Boyce, Lighting Design by Christopher Akerlind, Sound Design by Sara Huddleston, Props Design by Jacquelyn Scott, Fight Choreography by Dave Maier, and Dramaturgy by Sonia Fernandez

CAST: Jessi Campbell*, Rod Gnapp*, Andrew Pastides*, and Patrick Russell*

*Member of Actors' Equity Association

For tickets and more information call the Magic Theatre Box Office at 415-441-8822 or visit us online at www.magictheatre.org

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ABOUT MAGIC THEATRE: Magic Theatre is dedicated to the cultivation of bold new plays, playwrights, and audiences - and to producing explosive, entertaining, and ideologically robust plays that ask substantive questions about, and reflect the rich diversity of, the world in which we live. Magic believes that demonstrating faith in a writer's vision by providing a safe yet rigorous artistic home, where a full body of work can be imagined, supported, and produced, allows writers to thrive.