Fool for Love - Reviews
Fool for Love runs at Limelight on Oxford until January 12th, has received some amazing reviews, including the following:
Sydney Arts Guide
Superb and outstanding production team, delivers this scorching drama, with exceptional character-driven performances from the entire fantastic cast, as expertly directed by Julie Baz, with a clever and very effective minimalist set designed by David Jeffrey…
Lachlan Ruffy is both cruel and savagely fierce as Eddie
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Alt Media
Do not miss this classic Sam Shepard play, in which the brutal drama of a twisted love affair is set against the wild expanses of the Mojave Desert
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Lisa Thatcher
When performing an Eddie on the Edge, Lachlan Ruffy, his translucent masculinity fragile, evokes the post 9/11-GFC vulnerability in the gun-totin’ American Cowboy. This new look Eddie is overwhelmed by the size and ferocity of the problems at his door with his self-destruct mechanism dwelling below a shallow surface. A newer deconstructed modernity allows Lachlan Ruffy to make his Cowboy look like a historic version of the online avatar, with his gun more a promise of trouble rather than a tool to wield it. The power of Fool For Love lies in its pacing, and Julie Baz allows lengthy exchanges between Lachlan Ruffy’s Eddie and Joel Horwood’s Martin to reveal power shifts that will delight the acute observer. Two young men struggling with masculinity, spectre of The Woman to one side and The Father to the other, provide a highlight of recognisable emotional conflict…
The courage, ambition and experience of this production shows us what indie theatre in Sydney should be all about.
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Sydney Scoop
The creative team for this production have squeezed every drop of juice from this play’s text and created a powerful performance….
This is drama set on stage at its finest.
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Absolute Theatre
Director Julie Baz has ably assembled the right cast and crew for this production.
It remains tight, well-acted and engrossing for its entire 75 minutes.
Accents are mastered, sound and lighting create effective mood changes and the set and costumes bring colour and contrast.
All characters are interesting and performed admirably…
Eddie is played by Lachlan Ruffy.
He struts around like a cowboy would and brings a likable cheekiness to the role.
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