More details have been announced for the upcoming West End production of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, featuring movie star Juliette Lewis in her London stage debut.
The play will begin previews at the Apollo Theatre on June 7th and open on June 13th. Lindsay Posner, who has won acclaim for staging London productions of plays such as David Mamet's Oleanna and Romance, and Pinter's The Birthday Party, will direct the production.Lewis
will play May, whose plans with her new boyfriend are thwarted when an
old flame--with an undesirable bloodline--appears in her life. Fool for Love
opened at Off-Broadway's Douglas Fairbanks Theatre on November 27th,
1983 and ran for 1,000 performances through September 29th, 1985. The
show, which was also directed by Shepard (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class) originally starred Kathy Baker and Ed Harris.Lewis received an Oscar nomination as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Cape Fear. Other screen and TV credits include Starsky
& Hutch, Old School, The Other Sister, Evening Star, Natural Born
Killers, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Kalifornia, Husbands and Wives, "The Wonder Years," and "The Facts of Life." She fronts a band called Juliette and the Licks.
The West End transfer of the Broadway revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Bill Irwin and Kathleen Turner,is currently playing at the Apollo Theatre through May 13th.
