Love's Fire

Love's Fire is a collection of short plays by American writers based on Shakespeare's Sonnets. It was commissioned and premiered by The Acting Company in its 1997-98 season. [1]

Love's Fire
Written byJohn Guare
Wendy Wasserstein
Eric Bogosian
Ntozake Shange
Tony Kushner
William Finn
Marsha Norman
Date premiered1998
Original languageEnglish

Plays
  • "Bitter Sauce" by Eric Bogosian, inspired by Sonnet 118
  • "Hydraulics Phat Like Mean" by Ntozake Shange, inspired by Sonnet 128, Original Music by Chico Freeman , Choreography by Dyane Harvey
  • "140" by Marsha Norman, inspired by Sonnet 140
  • "Terminating" by Tony Kushner, inspired by Sonnet 75
  • "Painting You" by William Finn, inspired by Sonnet 102
  • "Waiting for Philip Glass" by Wendy Wasserstein, inspired by Sonnet 94
  • "The General of Hot Desire" by John Guare, inspired by Sonnets 153 and 154 and The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Varagine, Original Music by Adam Guettel

References
  1. Company, The Acting. "Love's Fire 1997/98 > The Acting Company". theactingcompany.org. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
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