Keegan’s ‘Fool for Love’ a dark, absorbing tale

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If the concept of “mutually destructive co-dependency” hadn’t existed in 1983 when Sam Shepard first produced “Fool for Love,” it would have been invented to describe the strange, surreal relationship he presents in that play. A tribute to the ruined abyss of the American West, “Fool for Love” examines the tumultuous, angry relationship between a broken-down cowboy and his onetime girlfriend.

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