Fool for Love by Sam Shepard and directed by Julie Noever at the BATS Theatre from 27 July - 5 August.

Tequila, a ten gauge shotgun, burnt-out plains and broken love in the American Mid-west collide as May and Eddie thrash out their dysfunctional love story in a beat-up motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert, entangled in their tumultuous past and a secret that binds and separates them until love and the terrible truth explodes.Fool for Love by Sam Shepard and directed by Julie Noever at the BATS Theatre from 27 July - 5 August.

Tequila, a ten gauge shotgun, burnt-out plains and broken love in the American Mid-west collide as May and Eddie thrash out their dysfunctional love story in a beat-up motel room at the edge of the Mojave Desert, entangled in their tumultuous past and a secret that binds and separates them until love and the terrible truth explodes.Director Julie Noever, (The Cottage), spent a large portion of her childhood in Atlanta, the heartland of southern USA. This connection to America, her obsession with Americana, cowboys and the belief that NZ needs more country music compelled Julie to direct this relentless and surreal dark comedy.

Sam Shepard is one of America's leading contemporary playwrights. In his plays he demonstrates his interest in popular American culture and the folklore of the American South-west: through the use of imaginative language, composed of slang, scientific jargon, B-movie dialogue, and Rock and Roll idioms; as well as a stage peopled with farmers, devils, witch-doctors, rock stars, space men, cowboys, gangsters and other American stereotypes.

Fool for Love is brought to life by the talented cast of Rob Lloyd, K.C. Kelly, Jade Daniels and Rachel Forman. Rachel studied in America at the prestigious Black Nexxus Actor's Studio while K.C. Kelly is a well known thespian from the US, who teaches at Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School. The play's designer, Leo Gene Peters, is another versatile talent from America, now emerging in the Wellington theatre community.

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