The General of Hot Desire
THE STORY: THE GENERAL OF HOT DESIRE. How does one write about the unknowable? A group of English Lit students attempt a condensed version of the Christian Bible, starting with a Shakespeare Sonnet. Their knowledge of Bible stories combine with their modern-day sensibility to become an accusation against an apathetic and greedy God. Their take on Eden and the after-math compel them to combine love and knowledge to become the weapon against a God who frowns on those who have used their freedom from Eden to see God as perhaps he really is: silent. (5 men, 4 women.)
“THE GENERAL OF HOT DESIRE…is a doggedly whimsical work…it sees something admirable and pathetic in humankind’s attempts to reconnect, through art and religions, with paradise lost and an indifferent God, and it sums up the generosity of spirit…” —The New York Times.
“THE GENERAL OF HOT DESIRE…comes up with pearls…it even dares at times to be beautiful…” —New York Daily News.
