Explosive FOOL FOR LOVE at Williamstown Theatre Festival

When May and Eddie (Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell) get together in Fool for Love after years apart, decades of pent up emotion explode on the Nikos Stage of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In this concise 75 minute play, the pair discovers they are half-siblings. They have a common father (Gordon Joseph Weiss) – who sits stage left throughout the proceedings reacting to their story, interjecting comments and bounding onto the set at one point to rant at the pair. Unwittingly, the clueless half brother and sister first met and played around in high school, then went on to develop a full blown relationship that 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 people’s lives, we watch the two lovers as they both cling to each other like life rafts even as they try to flee from the tumultuous waters of their own unpredictable relationship.