The fruit of an extraordinary project, Love's Fire reimagines seven of Shakespeare's immortal love sonnets as one-act plays by seven of the best playwrights in America. These short gems, paired with the sonnets that inspired them, are published here for the first time.

-A born storyteller with perfect pitch.- - New York Times

This volume features two of Bogosian's more unsettling works. Notes from Underground charts, in diary form, the life of an urban recluse who wants desperately to be -normal- but ultimately sinks into an abyss of his own making. Scenes from the New World is a play composed of three one-acts, probing modern life on the eve of the millennium.

One of America's premier performers and most innovative and provocative artists, Eric Bogosian's plays and solo work include suburbia (Lincoln Center...

Comic monologues Characters: 1 male

Bare stage

This non-stop tour through some oddball minds by the author of Talk Radio and Drinking in America enjoyed a lengthy run Off-Broadway. Originally performed as a one man show, the hilarious, riveting and often disturbing monologues can be presented by several actors or actresses.

"With this brilliant show, his funniest and scariest yet, Mr. Bogosian has crossed the line that separates an exciting artist from a culture hero.... I know of no one else like him in pop culture right now. He knows which way the wind is blowing, and in Sex,...

-Bogosian is greatly and bilaterally talented... spiky, stinging and caustic, without cauterizing. And funny.- - New York
-Bogosian is a born storyteller with perfect pitch.- - New York Times
Sex Plays includes Skunkweed, a culture clash between an L.A. screenwriter and a working-class woman held captive in a hotel room by her rural Florida family, and 1+1, an exploration of desire, greed and personal responsibility through the lives of a good-looking hustler, an ambitious pretty girl, and a -good guy, - who always seems to finish last.-
One of...

Almost forty years after moving to Manhattan, author Richard Morris has achieved if not stratospheric renown then at least the accomplished career and caliber of fame that he envisioned for himself as a younger man. Now financially comfortable and artistically embittered, Richard is at his home upstate recuperating from heart surgery and nursing resentment toward his publisher and his reading public who have found new, more exciting writers and left his star to wane.

In his attic, Richard comes across a stack of notebooks, the journals he began keeping when he arrived in New York in the...