mainstream repertoire" and added: "Although she was not as well-known as fellow theater maverick Sam Shepard, her playwriting exerted a similar magnetic pull on generations of theater artists inspired by her liberating example." Personal life Fornés was a lesbian and included gays and lesbians in several of her plays. She said, however, that she was not focused on examining such characters: "Being gay is not like being of another species. If you're gay, you're a person. What interests me is the mental and organic life of an individual. I'm writing about how people deal with things as an individual, not as a member of a type." As Fornés' reputation grew in avant-garde circles, she became friendly with Norman Mailer and Joseph Papp and reconnected with Harriet Sohmers. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2005 and lived the rest of her life in care facilities. Fornés died at the Amsterdam Nursing Home in Manhattan on October 30, 2018. Documentary and adaptations A documentary feature about Fornés called The Rest I Make Up by Michelle Memran was made in collaboration with Fornés. It focuses on her creative life in the years after she stopped writing due to dementia. The film's title is a line from Promenade. It premiered at Doc Fortnight 2018, the annual festival of New York's Museum of Modern Art. Philip Glass composed a 30-minute chamber opera for three singers accompanied by keyboard and harp based on Fornés' play Drowning. Works La Viuda (The Widow) (1961) There! You Died (1963) (produced as Tango Palace in 1964) The Successful Life of 3: A Skit for Vaudeville (1965) Promenade (music by Al Carmines) (1965) The Office (1966) The Annunciation (1967) A Vietnamese Wedding (1967) Dr. Kheal (1968) Molly's Dream (music by Cosmos Savage) (1968) The Red Burning Light, or Mission XQ3 (music by John Vauman) (1968) Aurora (music by John Fitzgibbon) (1972) The Curse of the Langston House (1972) Cap-a-Pie (From Head to Foot), in Spanish and English, music by José Raúl Bernardo) (1975) Washing (1976) Fefu and Her Friends (1977) Lolita in the Garden (1977) In Service (1978) Eyes on the Harem (1979) Evelyn Brown: A Diary (1980) A Visit (1981) The Danube (1982) Mud (1983) Sarita (music by Leon Odenz) (1984) No Time (1984) The Conduct of Life (1985) A Matter of Faith (1986) Lovers and Keepers (music by Tito Puente and Fernando Rivas) (1986) Drowning (adapted from a