Love's Fire

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Love's Fire
Written by John 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. It was commissioned and premiered by The Acting Company in its 1997-98 season. [1]

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References

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