Past Production
Love's Fire
Written by: John Guare, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman, William Finn, Ntozake Shange, and Eric Bogosian.
Inspired by the sonnets of: William Shakespeare

Directed by:
Shawn LaCount
Monique Douglas
Mark VanDerzee

July 12, 2001 through August 11, 2001
Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street Boston

Take six of America's hottest playwrights, Introduce them to six of Shakespeare's immortal sonnets… Inspiration is inevitable.

"The fruit of an extraordinary project, Love's Fire reimagines six of Shakespeare's immortal love sonnets as one act plays by six of the best playwrights in America. These short gems, paired with the sonnets that inspired them, are burlesque and sublime. Their range stretches creative license to new heights."

Providing the fuel needed to flame through six stories about the diversity of love today, Company One's menu includes DJ Symmetry, on-stage at all times mixing and scratching her way through this evening of lust and pain, weaving these six short plays together with sweet love songs and hard beats. To host this night of passion and decadence, our favorite Bostonians will be giving their very own renditions of the seven different Shakespearean sonnets that originally inspired Love's Fire. Via video projection Bean Town locals will profess the Bard's immortal words of love. These plays cut to the heart and scream true. Sharp, honest, hilarious; Love's Fire is beautifully constructed, necessarily relevant and completely inspired.