Theater
Director nervous about approaching Shepard's complex love story 'Fool for Love'
By PATRICIA MORRIS BUCKLEY - For the North County Times
Director Dana Case isn't embarrassed to admit that she's scared to direct Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love." Even though she appeared in several Shepard plays at New Village Arts in Carlsbad, and she helmed the company's critical hit "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley, this is the first time she's directed one of Shepard's dramas.
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