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  Beja

  Dr Ken Jenkins

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  I’m loving it. (J.Q. – United Kingdom) Beautifully written (J.M. – USA) Wow! So Impressive! So riveting! (S.A. – Harare) I’m loving your book. Thank you! Can I share with a friend? (A.S. – Cape Town)  
  Ali and Salma are Beja people, living in the hauntingly beautiful hills by the Red Sea in North Africa. They belong to a nomadic tribe that time forgot, under siege by a Western culture that challenges the very core of their ancient traditions and beliefs. Enter David Stark, a doctor and aid worker, caught up in a civil war and his own unexpected awakening of love, faith and future. Traumatic events cast David, Salma and Ali together and their intertwined stories push them towards each other and a wildly unpredictable destiny. This is a gripping and inspiring story of the triumph of the human spirit and the love of God.

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  Just Between Ourselves

  Alan Ayckbourn

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  The first of Ayckbourn’s darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Gia Carides as PamKenneth Danziger as DennisJudy Geeson as VeraMiriam Margolyes as MarjorieAlfred Molina as NeilDirected by Waris Hussein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  Amadeus

  Peter Shaffer

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  Ambition and jealousy — all set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards?The 1981 Tony Award ® winner for Best Play.Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in September, 2016.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergSteven Brand as Baron van SwietenJames Callis as MozartMichael Emerson as SalieriDarren Richardson as Venticello 2Alan Shearman as Count Orsini-RosenbergMark Jude Sullivan as Venticello 1Simon Templeman as Joseph IIBrian Tichnell as Count Johann Kilian Von StrackJocelyn Towne as ConstanzeAssociate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Sound Designer, Recording Engineer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Foley Artist, Jeff Gardner. Production Manager, Tori Burnett. Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Music Supervisor, Scott Willis. Foreign Language Consultant, Matthew Wolf. Select Original Sound Design by Darron L. West, performed by Victor Zupnac.

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  Absalom and Achitophel

  John Dryden

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  John Dryden published Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem in 1681. It is an elaborate historical allegory using the political situation faced by King David (2 Samuel 14-18) to mirror that faced by Charles II. Each monarch had a son whom a high-ranking minister attempted to use against him. James Scott, first Duke of Monmouth, Charles II's illegitimate son, was detected planning a rebellion late in 1681, supposedly instigated by the Earl of Shaftesbury, who was tried for high treason, and it is believed that Dryden wrote the poem in an effort to sway the jury in his trial. The fates of both Absalom (Monmouth) and Achitophel (Shaftesbury) are left unspecified at the end of the poem (Monmouth did rebel in 1685, after his father's death, and was executed, and Shaftesbury was acquitted), but we are left to surmise that their fates would resemble those of their Biblical counterparts: Absalom was killed against David's instructions and Achitophel hanged himself.The poem can be enjoyed without any special knowledge of either the Bible or seventeenth-century English history, but it is useful to understand why Monmouth (AKA Absalom) was such a useful tool to use against his father: Charles had many illegitimate offspring, but his wife was barren, so at his death the crown would pass (did pass) to his brother, James, who was Catholic, but Monmouth was Protestant as well as well-beloved by both the king and the people. England had good reason to dread a return of officially enforced Catholicism. The narrator's urbane attitude toward David's amatory adventures in the opening of the poem and his burlesque of the supposed Jebusitical plot (the "Popish Plot" of 1678) establish clearly his Tory bias in favor of the Establishment and his disdain of the panic caused by fear of Catholicism (Dryden himself converted to the Catholic faith at some time before 1685).

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  How We Begin (NHB Modern Plays)

  Elisabeth Lewerenz

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  Helen and Diana are perfect for each other: they've both got good degrees, busy jobs and nice flats. There's just one small problem – Diana's got a boyfriend.
  Elisabeth Lewerenz's play How We Begin is a tender exploration of love, queerness and identity. It was premiered at VAULT Festival, London, 2023.

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  The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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  Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape.   Born on the 4th August 1792 he has, over the years, become rightly regarded as a major Romantic poet.  Yet during his own lifetime little of his work was published. Publishers feared his radical views and possible charges against themselves for blasphemy and sedition.  On 8th July 1822 a month before his 30th birthday, during a sudden storm, his tragic early death by drowning robbed our culture of many fine expected masterpieces. But in his short spell on earth he weaved much magic.  In this collection Shelley’s words are alive with intent, meaning and emotion. A true poet for all our ages.

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