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  Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

  Eric Bentley

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  In the mid-1950’s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to “name names,” and the steep price paid by those who refused.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: René Auberjonois, Edward Asner, Bonnie Bedelia, Jack Coleman, Bud Cort, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Robert Foxworth, Harry Hamlin, James Earl Jones, Richard Masur, Franklyn Seales, Joe Spano, James Whitmore, Michael York, and Harris Yulin.

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  La Bete

  David Hirson

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  In a comic whirlwind of high style, La Bête tells the story of Elomire, a 17th century French playwright, and his touring acting troupe who have come to lead the high life due to the patronage of the fickle Prince of Conti. Sparks fly when Valere, a swaggering braggert with delusions of artistic grandeur, becomes the Prince's choice to join Elomire's troupe. It is a battle of wits and witticisms as the two face off in this outrageous commentary on the nature of art and the artist in society.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Michael Cumpsty, Jen Dede, Alice Hirson, John de Lancie, Matt Letscher, Robert Machray, Tom McGowen, Amy Pietz, Andre Sogliuzzo and Sarah Zimmerman.

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  The Poetry of Dreams - The...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  ‘Perchance to dream’ is an offer that most of us would accept in the blink of an eye.  That mysterious ‘other world’ where the day’s reality is processed by our subconscious, really is a mystery, even to the experts and self-help books who decipher our beguiling imaginings with all sorts of reasonings.  Perhaps the better truth is that most of us don’t remember much about our dreams, unlike its near neighbour the nightmare!  Day-dreams too fall into a fantasy imagining where we try to re-route the natural course of events as we move from one emotion to another. 
   
  Our unconscious dreams seem essential for our mental and emotional well-being and some believe they provide solutions, answers and prophesize important events.  In the conscious world we use the word to describe our goals, desires and wishes which reveal much about who we are and our chosen path for life.   
   
  Whatever their significance may or may not be, they are universal and a subject on which our poets have much to say. 
   
  With such a rich seam to mine, our poets from Sarojini Naidu to Lewis Carroll, Edna St Vincent Millay to Shakespeare by way of Antonio Machado and Longfellow and a host of others provide a pillowful of poems that will set you dreaming. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of Dreams - An Introduction 
  02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 
  03 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 
  04 - The Dream by John Donne 
  05 - The Dream by Amy Levy 
  06 - Ay, Workman, Make Me A Dream by Stephen Crane 
  07 - House of Dreams by Sara Teasdale 
  08 - My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower by John Skelton 
  09 - Roses of a Dream by Damon Runyon 
  10 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  11 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  12 - The Dream by Alexander Pushkin 
  13 - A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 
  14 - The Dream by Aphra Behn 
  15 - Love by Rupert Brooke 
  16 - This Faulted Dream by Daniel Sheehan 
  17 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing by William Shakespeare 
  18 - The Dream Called Life by Pedro Calderon de la Barca 
  19 - Dream Fable by Rabia al Basri 
  82 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman 
  21 - Song of a Dream by Sarojini Naidu 
  22 - A Midday Dreamer by James Weldon Johnson 
  23 - Dreams Old by D H Lawrence 
  24 - A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Life Is But a Dream) by Lewis Carroll 
  25 - Dream Town by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  26 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield 
  27 - The Opal Dream Cave by Katherine Mansfeild 
  28 - Dreams by John Dryden 
  29 - Life Tells the Dreamer by Margaret Widdemer 
  30 - Dreams by Anne Bronte 
  31 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  32 - My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu 
  33 - Dreams by Edgar Allen Poe 
  34 - I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark Not Day by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
  35 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 
  36 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe 
  37 - I Dream'd I Lay by Robert Burns 
  38 - A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker 
  39 - Harlem by Langston Hughes 
  40 - Forgotten Dreams by Edward Silvera 
  41 - Boaz Asleep by Victor Hugo 
  42 - A Dream of Glory by Albery Allson Whitman 
  43 - I Rose From Dreamless Hours by James Elroy Flecker 
  44 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce 
  45 - Dream Variation by Langston Hughes 
  46 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill 
  47 - Dreams by Robert Herrick 
  48 - Dream Pediary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 
  49 - Dreamland by Christina Rossetti 
  50 - A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
  51 - Dreams and Duty by Tom Kettle 
  52 - Last Night I Dreamed by Hafiz 
  53 - Musselman's Dream by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 
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  Chekhov: Shorts (NHB Classic Plays)

  Anton Chekhov

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  This collection features Chekhov's best-known short plays in brand new translations: three farces, two comic duologues and a monologue, all of them referred to by Chekhov as 'vaudevilles' and all written in the late 1880s before any of his great full-length plays. 'I don't much care for theatre,' he wrote at the time, 'but I do enjoy vaudevilles.'
  The Bear, The Proposal and The Wedding are all farces on the preposterous busness of courtship and marriage. A Tragic Figure and Swansong are comic duologues: one about a civil servant sweltering in Moscow coping with the incessant demands of his family from their summer dacha, the other about a melancholy old actor perked up by memories of past glories. On the Evils of Tobacco is a bittersweet monologue in which a scientific lecture is hijacked by thoughts of domestic misery.
  These accurate and actable translations by Chekhov expert Stephen Mulrine reveal a dramatist revelling in the broad comedy of human behaviour, a comedy which was refined in his later masterpieces.
  Highly entertaining, these comic shorts offer a fascinating insight into Chekhov's development as a dramatist, and will provide actors at any level - student, amateur or professional - with an ideal showcase.
  This edition also includes an introduction, a chronology of key dates, and a pronunciation guide.

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  Struwwelpeter

  Heinrich Hoffmann

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  Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a picture book for his son for Christmas in 1844. Not impressed by what the stores had to offer, he instead bought a notebook and wrote his own stories and pictures. While Struwwelpeter is somewhat notorious for its perceived brutal treatment of the erring children, it has been influential on many later children’s books, most notably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Summary by Catharine and wikipedia.org)

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  Abigail (NHB Modern Plays)

  Fiona Doyle

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  A man in his forties and a woman in her twenties meet on a trip to Berlin. Across a fractured timeline where past and present collide, the story of their relationship, their love and their struggle unravels.
  Abigail premiered at The Bunker, London, in 2017. The play was shortlisted for the Eamon Keane Full-Length Play Award.
  Fiona Doyle's other plays include Deluge (Hampstead Downstairs, winner of the Eamon Keane Award) and Coolatully (Finborough Theatre, winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize).
  'An expressive and memorable play' Exeunt Magazine on Coolatully
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