FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Love's Fire to be performed at the Boston Center for the Arts

BOSTON: Company One announced today that it will produce Love's Fire, a collection of one-act plays written by Eric Bogosian, William Finn, John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, and Ntozake Shange, at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, from July 12 through August 11, 2001. Performances will run Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $18, $15 for students and seniors, and may be purchased in advance by calling the BCA box office at 617.426.2787 (617.426.ARTS).

Company One is proud to present Love's Fire, a daring collection of plays inspired by Shakespearean sonnets and penned by six of America's most provocative and celebrated playwrights. The fruit of an extraordinary project, Love's Fire reimagines six of Shakespeare's immortal love sonnets as one-act plays by six of America's best playwrights. These short gems, paired with the sonnets that inspired them, are burlesque and sublime. Their range stretches creative license to new heights. Tony Kushner (Angels in America), John Guare (Six Degrees of Separation), Marsha Norman ('Night Mother), Ntozake Shange ( For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide), William Finn (March of the Falsettos), and Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio), with inspiration from Shakespeare's sonnets, deliver powerful short plays on the issues that shape and define the American urban experience. Company One's production is a powerful artistic collaboration, informed by Boston's raw urban energy, which will combine film, music, and visual art with live theatre to create a sensory masterpiece for the stage.

Take six of America's hottest playwrights, introduce them to six of Shakespeare's immortal sonnets…
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Love's Fire

Sharp, honest, hilarious; These plays are beautifully constructed, necessarily relevant and completely inspired.