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  Sunbathing on Tyrone Power's...

  Kim Dower

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  Death has never felt so alive in this “bold and sexy and smart” collection of poems (Stephen Dunn).   From alluring titles to haunting last lines, the poems in Kim Dower’s fourth collection soothe, terrify, and always surprise, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound, humor and heartache, Dower’s poetry continues to be quirky, dark, sexy, disarmingly candid, and moving, and here she explores the landscape of death and its intersections with love, longing, obsession, sadness, joy, and beauty.   Wise and soaring, these poems bravely imagine another life beyond the one we all know, where even the angels surrounding the graves are wearing bikinis, smoking Kool Lights.

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  For Dolly who does not Learn her...

  E. Nesbit

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of For Dolly, who does not Learn her Lessons by E. Nesbit. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013.Edith Nesbit reminds us of the magic - and brevity - of childhood.

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  The Speaking Voice

  Katherine Jewell Everts

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  From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training which is the result of a deliberate effort to simplify and condense, for general use, the principles which are fundamental to all recognized systems of vocal instruction. It contains practical directions accompanied by simple and fundamental exercises, first for the freeing of the voice and then for developing it when free."Parts I and II of the book comprise advice on vocal production and techniques, while some chapters in Part III provide detailed guidance on the vocal interpretation of various literary genres, including the essay, various types of poetry, short stories, dramatic monologues and plays. Some chapters comprise mainly examples for practice, and include complete poems and stories.The reader has endeavoured to follow the author's instructions, but makes no guarantee as to her success, especially in the poetic realm.

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  Dark Sublime (NHB Modern Plays)

  Michael Dennis

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  Oli arrives at the door of Marianne, a now-forgotten sci-fi TV icon, impatient to make an impression, to make a friend. Marianne, a jobbing actress, knows about waiting – for the phone to ring, for her best friend to see her differently, for her turn at something more substantial than a half-remembered role on a cult TV show. He wants an autograph; she doesn't want anything from him – or so she thinks. Yet as they start to explore each other's worlds, they begin to discover what every good relationship needs: time and space.
  Exploring the complexities of relationships, especially in the LGBTQ community, and the contrast in lived experiences across generations, Michael Dennis has crafted a story that is as much about joy and heartbreak as it is about quarries and transmat beams.
  Dark Sublime is a love-letter to British sci-fi television – those that make it and those that adore it.
  It premiered at the Trafalgar Studios in June 2019.

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  The Late Middle Classes (NHB...

  Simon Gray

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  A funny yet melancholic look at the frustrations, secrets and guilt of middle-class respectability in 1950s England.
  England in the 1950s. Celia, bored to distraction, fills her time with tennis and gin; Charles, a pathologist, is buried in his work among the living and the dead; and their gifted son, Holly, is having his first lessons in both music and in life.
  Simon Gray's play The Late Middle Classes was first performed at the Palace Theatre, Watford, in March 1999, and produced on tour by the Ambassadors Theatre Group/Turnstile Group Limited. It was the winner of the Barclays Stage Award for Best New Play of 1999.
  The play was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in June 2010.
  'This is Gray at the very top of his game; funny, delicate, and deeply humane' - Telegraph
  'the writing is a joy' - Independent
  'a quietly moving portrait of repressive 1950s England and, in particular, of the way children often become the victim of adult dreams and desires' - Guardian

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  Stolen Secrets (NHB Modern Plays)

  Fin Kennedy

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  Stolen Secrets is a play made up of urban fairytales, bold, lyrical and gruesome, that can be performed individually or together for maximum shock value.
  Set in the heart of London's East End, this play is written in an ensemble storytelling style that will suit younger performance groups around the country, especially those looking for predominantly female roles.
  'A delight' - Scotsman

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