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Fool for Love
We have to thank Sam Shepard for one thing. He’s finally gotten us over Anne. In Shepard’s 1983 motel play (what is it with this season and plays set in motels?), Fool for Love, former Green Gables girl Megan Follows performs wrenchingly well, as does her husband, Stuart Hughes. The couple plays an on-again-off-again couple with a dark and dirty secret, and they do so well. We could have done with less crawling, less slamming ones body against the walls of the hotel room in despair, but perhaps they just really liked the set. We really liked it too. Sort of like an Edward Hopper painting come to life, a feeling neatly echoed by the moody lighting.
Should you see it? If you go in for anger, yelling and occasional fisticuffs, then yes. If you like daffodils and pixie sticks, and people of good cheer, then perhaps no.