In Fool For Love, situated at a seedy motel on the edge of the Mojave Desert, transient lovers May and Eddie spin around in a room in a relentless struggle for power and truth. Through recollections and dreams, multiple versions of a fierce and fatal love story are told. The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife, another kind of love story in the form of a comic operetta, takes a distaff view of the Southwest's legendary cowpuncher and his mate Slue-foot Sue, with irreverent commentary on American heroes and heroics. "No one knows better than Sam Shepard that the true American West is gone forever, but there may be no writer alive more gifted at reinventing it out of pure literary air." -Frank Rich, The New York Times "Mr. Shepard is the most deeply serious humorist of the American theater, and a poet with no use whatever for the 'poetic.' He brings fresh news of love, here and now, in all its potency and deviousness and foolishness, and of many other matters as well." -Edith Oliver, The New Yorker Sam Shepard (1943) is a playwright, actor, author, screen writer, and director whose work is performed on and off Broadway and in other theaters across the country. In 1979, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Buried Child. In 1983, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in The Right Stuff. His other famous works include True West, A Lie of the Mind, and Curse of the Starving Class.

サム・シェパードは、消えゆく西部の神話を剥き出しの言葉で再構築する稀代の詩人です。表題作では、砂漠のモーテルで逃れられない愛憎が描かれます。真実と虚構が混濁する中で男女がぶつけ合う激しい衝動は、個人のアイデンティティがいかに過去の幻影に支配されているかを突きつけ、読者の魂を揺さぶります。 英雄像の虚飾を剥ぎ取った先に残る、人間の孤独と狂気。洗練を拒む無骨な文体は戯曲の枠を超え、現代の底流に潜む不穏な熱量を鮮烈に映し出しています。フロンティア精神の崩壊と、その瓦礫の中で喘ぐ魂の叫びを、ぜひその身で体験してください。