Fool for Love
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Fool for Love is a one-act play by American playwright Sam Shepard that explores obsession, dysfunctional love, and family secrets in a stark desert motel setting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fool for Love canonical | 5 |
| Fool for Love (1985 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2081326 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Fool for Love Context triple: [Sam Shepard, notableWork, Fool for Love]
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A.
All for Love
All for Love is a 1985 R&B and pop studio album by American boy band New Edition, featuring hits that helped solidify their status in the mid-1980s music scene.
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B.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
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C.
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
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D.
Light in the Piazza
Light in the Piazza is a romantic drama film set in Italy that explores the relationship between a young American woman with a developmental disability and a local man, adapted from Elizabeth Spencer’s novella.
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E.
Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude is a landmark experimental play by Eugene O’Neill, renowned for its use of interior monologues to explore the psychological lives and moral conflicts of its characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Fool for Love Target entity description: Fool for Love is a one-act play by American playwright Sam Shepard that explores obsession, dysfunctional love, and family secrets in a stark desert motel setting.
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A.
All for Love
All for Love is a 1985 R&B and pop studio album by American boy band New Edition, featuring hits that helped solidify their status in the mid-1980s music scene.
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B.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
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C.
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
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D.
Light in the Piazza
Light in the Piazza is a romantic drama film set in Italy that explores the relationship between a young American woman with a developmental disability and a local man, adapted from Elizabeth Spencer’s novella.
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E.
Strange Interlude
Strange Interlude is a landmark experimental play by Eugene O’Neill, renowned for its use of interior monologues to explore the psychological lives and moral conflicts of its characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
one-act play
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play ⓘ |
| author | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| awarded |
Obie Award for Best New American Play
ⓘ
Obie Award ⓘ
surface form:
Obie Award for Performance
|
| BroadwayOpeningYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| BroadwayTransfer | John Golden Theatre ⓘ |
| centralConflict | romantic and familial relationship between Eddie and May ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| directorOfPremiere | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Robert Altman ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationReleaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationScreenwriter | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1983 ⓘ |
| firstPerformancePlace | Magic Theatre, San Francisco ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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psychological drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Fool for Love
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Fool for Love (1985 film)
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| hasCharacter |
Eddie
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Martin ⓘ May ⓘ The Old Man ⓘ |
| hasDialogueFeature |
monologues by The Old Man
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overlapping dialogue ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
minimalist staging
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realism blended with surreal elements ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Pulitzer Prize for Drama ⓘ |
| notableProduction | Off-Broadway production at Circle Repertory Company ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Sam Shepard’s family plays ⓘ |
| producerOfPremiere |
Magic Theatre, San Francisco
ⓘ
surface form:
Magic Theatre
|
| publisher | Dramatists Play Service ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 60 minutes ⓘ |
| setting |
Mojave Desert
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motel room ⓘ |
| structure | single continuous scene ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Old West
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surface form:
American West
broken families ⓘ emotional violence ⓘ |
| theme |
abandonment
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dysfunctional love ⓘ family secrets ⓘ incest ⓘ memory and reality ⓘ obsession ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
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Subject: Fool for Love Description of subject: Fool for Love is a one-act play by American playwright Sam Shepard that explores obsession, dysfunctional love, and family secrets in a stark desert motel setting.
Referenced by (6)
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