The Fire of Love

By Tony D Triggs

The play The Fire of Love premi red in March 2025.

Its central character, Margery Kempe, is surely an ideal subject for drama. She excited controversy in her medieval lifetime and she does so today. Mystic? Hysteric? Saint? Sham? The play keeps all these things in tension, as Kempe herself did, and ends with her trial for obscene blasphemy with the audience cast as jurors.

While rooted in the Christian tradition, this is a 'warts and all' presentation of Margery Kempe, asking, 'Will she stop at nothing for the love of God?

Suiting amateur groups and professionals alike, the play requires a modest cast and rewards straightforward staging techniques. When Kempe has visions of Jesus' birth (where she acts as midwife) and also of his crucifixion, the audience sees with its mind's eye what Kempe acts out in word and gesture.

Kempe's well-meaning husband John gives the play a dimension of poignant humour, finally pleading that his wife should not be hanged on a 'giblet.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F7R7XXKD
• ISBN13: 9798280649859
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"