Fool for Love

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Play Closed 9 September 2006

Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue, London

Revival of Sam Shepard's play Fool for Love, directed by Lindsay Posner and starring Juliette Lewis and Martin Henderson.

"She just appears. She's just standing there, staring at me and I'm staring back at her and we can't take our eyes off each other. It was like we knew each other from somewhere but we couldn't place where. But the second we saw each other, that very second, we knew we'd never stop being in love"

"One of the most powerful and poetic of American playwrights" The Daily Express

Juliette Lewis and Martin Henderson play former lovers who meet at an isolated motel on the edge of the Mojave desert. As buried passions are unearthed, lust turns to violence and cruel betrayals may not be forgiven. This is an explosive story of dark secrets, gripping obsession and the deepest kind of love. The cast also features Larry Lamb and Joe Duttine.

Juliette Lewis: "Electrifying... acts her jealous heart out" The London Evening Standard

Martin Henderson: "Dominates the stage" The Sunday Times

Larry Lamb: "Remarkable" The Financial Times

Joe Duttine: "Very amusing as May's sweating non plussed suitor" The Independent

"Lindsay Posner's West End production of Fool For Love proves to be grippingly feral, darkly funny and nightmarish... Strongly recommended." The Independent on Sunday

"A trailer trash tragedy with classical intensity" The Times

"Fool for Love has Shepard's trademarks. There's a haunting absent father, scowling in the too amiable shape of Larry Lamb on the sidelines. There's the seedy setting: a motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert... Juliette Lewis looks and moves perfectly in this framed place... Lindsay Posner's production gives a showcase for a great playwright. If you've never seen a Sam Shepard, go to this." The Observer

"Lindsay Posner's superb production screws the tension to the tightest point" The London Evening Standard

The atmosphere is balmy and claustrophobic, and, with the right combination of actors in the two leading roles, should be crackling with emotion and resentment. These two Hollywood film actors both look right: Juliette Lewis is louche as well as sweet... Martin Henderson is boyish and sexy... but between the two of them, despite Lindsay Posner's simple, spare direction, they left me wondering if, secret or no secret, they should spend any time together at all, or if they should just call it a day and go bowling or whatever else they do on the edge of the Mojave desert." The Sunday Telegraph