Brilliant production of Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love” at Williamstown Theatre Festival

Playwright Sam Shepard says that his own experience of being in love inspired the aptly titled Fool for Love, now on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He wrote: “”[Falling in love is] such a dumbfounding experience. In one way you wouldn’t trade it for the world. In another way it’s absolute hell. In the play May and Eddie (Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell) are both trapped, dumbfounded, in their own mutual hell of love. Their relationship hit the rocks ages ago, yet something still binds them together. This passion is at the core of Shepard’s raw and emotion-drenched drama. Like watching a catastrophic storm destroy the foundations of our lives, we watch the two lovers cling to each other like life rafts even as they try to flee from the tumultuous waters of their own unpredictable relationship.