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

Love's Fire is a collection of short plays by American writers based on Shakespeare's Sonnets.

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