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  Chatroom (NHB Modern Plays)

  Enda Walsh

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  A chilling, blackly comic tale of manipulation, cyberbullying and adolescent insecurity.
  In a quiet corner of the internet, a group of bored, restless teenagers spends its time deconstructing children's literature and the messages in modern pop music. But when a new member joins to share his depression and thoughts of suicide, the conversation takes a darker turn.
  A powerful depiction of modern-day isolation and the dangerous power of technology, Chatroom formed part of the National Theatre's 2005 Connections season, where it starred Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.
  'A vivid picture of teenage angst and insecurity' Guardian
  'Powerful and disturbing' The Stage
  'Keenly believeable... enthralling' Financial Times

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  Afternoon in July An

  Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 7, 2013. 
  Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She was "one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and resulted in her novels being read by, both anglophone and francophone Canadians."Leprohon's novels were popular in both English and French Canada in the late 19th-century, and were still being reprinted in French in the mid-1920s. They gradually went out of fashion in the early 20th-century, as literary styles changed."Since 1970, however,"says the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "the life and works of Rosanna Eleanor Mullins Leprohon have been frequently noted and increasingly praised by critics and scholars of both English-and French-Canadian literature, and new editions of her works have been published." (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Plays from VAULT 5 (NHB Modern...

  Tatty Hennessy, Charlotte...

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  This anthology, the fifth from Nick Hern Books, comprises five of the best plays from VAULT Festival 2020, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.
  Something Awful by Tatty Hennessy is a thrilling play inspired by the true-crime story of the Slenderman. Soph and her best friend Jel love scary stories and hunt for the best online. But then new girl Ellie turns up at school with one of her own.
  Second Home by Charlotte Chimuanya explores the experiences of growing up mixed-race in twenty-first century Ireland. Naomi is trying to mend her broken heart. But will tackling grief and racism in a place she calls home prove to be the final betrayal?
  Madame Ovary by Rosa Hesmondhalgh tells the heartbreaking and hilarious true story of Rosa's own ovarian cancer. This five-star sell-out Edinburgh hit is a life-affirming monologue exploring the typical struggles of staying relevant, with the less typical struggles of staying alive.
  Take Care by Zoë Templeman-Young and Sam McLaughlin of Écoute Theatre follows the real-life story of Pam, a woman struggling to move her mother into a care home that's closer to her. An award-winning Edinburgh smash, it is an astonishing, tragic and uplifting verbatim play about the care system in the UK today.
  Heroes by Isabel Dixon is a poignant exploration of fallen idols, family secrets and the human price of forgiveness. Set across two timelines, it is the tense and sensitive story of a family torn apart by an unforgiveable act.
  'A major London festival… showcasing new and rising talent' Independent on VAULT Festival.

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  Rivers to the Sea

  Sara Teasdale

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  A bestseller at the time of its publication, Rivers to the Sea, Sara Teasdale's third collection of poetry, has remained in print since its debut in 1915. Passionate and romantic, full of longing, this masterful collection was dedicated to her husband. Sara Teasdale won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Love Songs in 1918. 
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  AnnaLisa Bodtker is the narrator of the popular audiobooks The Rainbow and the Rose by Edith Nesbit, and Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale. 
  cover image: Desna river, feeder of the Southern Bug, at dawn. Ukraine, Vinnytsia Raion by George Chernilevsky

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  Damon Runyon Theater - Social...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into the black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  Buried Child

  Sam Shepard

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  It's a curious homecoming for Vince, the son nobody seems to remember. Violence is never far from the surface as his unexpected return uncovers a deep, dark secret that triggers catastrophe in Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Child.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Hale Appleman as VinceTom Bower as DodgeJohn Getz as Father DewisAmy Madigan as HalieRobert Parsons as TildenJeff Perry as BradleyMadeline Zima as ShellyDirected by Peter Levin. Recorded before a live audience at the James Bridges Theater at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in December, 2011.

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