Originally written by seventeenth century nun Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz and adapted here by Catherine Boyle, House of Desires is a romantic farce involving a brother and sister entangled in a web of love with four others.

Critically acclaimed, this play was part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Spanish Golden Age 2004 season.

One of the few female playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age and a major Baroque literary figure in Mexico.