Fool for Love Themes

The alternate title for Fool for Love could be Desertion in the Desert, since both characters have bushels of abandonment issues. First, we learn early on that Eddie has been the abandoner quite a...

Love and sex are really twisted, complicated animals in Fool for Love—even more so than usual, and that's saying something. You see, our two protagonists (and lovebirds), Eddie and May, are also...

There are definitely a couple of control freaks running around in Fool for Love, namely Eddie and his dad (a.k.a. the Old Man). They both seem to want lots and lots of freedom to come and go as the...

Eddie and the Old Man are definitely manly men—heck, the fact that the Old Man is known only by his general age/sex tells you how important manliness is to understanding what he's about. In Fool...

There's not a whole lot of actual physical violence on stage in Fool for Love, but there are threats of galore—May's threats of violence against the Countess, Eddie's threats against Martin, and...

Forget lying as a theme—it's an outright family tradition in Fool for Love. The Old Man had two families that he kept secret from each other. As a result, May and Eddie met and fell in love witho...

When cheating (and even just love in general) is involved, jealousy is often not too very far away. That's definitely the case in Fool for Love. With all the deep, complicated feelings May and Eddi...

There's a lot of alcohol use all over this play, even though both of our main characters claim to have been on the wagon as of late. May's pretensions to being "on the wagon" go out the window pret...

Eddie and May bring new meaning to the whole concept of "keeping it in the family," since they are both lovers and half siblings. Family is a very big topic in Fool for Love, obviously—and Shepar...