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  The Refrigerator Memory

  Shannon Bramer

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  The Refrigerator Memory is an exuberant, strangely funny celebration of sadness.
   
  With fable-like miniature stories and short lyric poems, Shannon Bramer creates a world littered with stolen pears and prosthetic arms and inhabited by Kindness scientists and hot-air-balloon operators. The poems invoke a world of childhood delights and demons in the context of grown-up fears and appetites: heartbreak, loss, jealousy and old-fashioned sibling rivalry. You’ll find the hopelessly misunderstood Love the Clown (never goes out without his red wig) and Noni, a forlorn young man who can’t stop crying.
   
  But while sadness plays a starring role, the true hero of the collection is the imagination; its transformative powers warm widows and drunken gods and designated mourners.
   
  You won’t forget The Refrigerator Memory: the icebox cometh to warm your heart.
   
  ‘Bramer’s “Our Prosthesis�* … [is] wonderfully succinct, while still managing to convey entire lives floating beneath its surface.’ – Lee Gowan
   
  ‘[Bramer writes] poems with resonant grief, fragile glass and desperate love, carved carefully and spare out of cold, dark objects, achieving small, remarkable poems.’ – rob mclennan

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  Cougar (NHB Modern Plays)

  Rose Lewenstein

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  Leila wants to inspire global change. John needs to get his shit together. They have an arrangement. But managing an affair isn't easy when the world around you is falling apart.
  Rose Lewenstein's Cougar is a play about what – and who – we consume. It was premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in February 2019, in a co-production with English Touring Theatre.

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  Hope (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jack Thorne

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  An urgent political play from the writer behind Let The Right One In and This is England '86. Hope is a funny and scathing fable attacking the squeeze on local government.
  How do you save twenty-two million pounds? Mark and Hilary, the leaders of the Council, are about to find out.
  Jack Thorne's Hope premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2014.
  'valuable and timely... a sunburst of optimism' - Daily Telegraph
  'a surprisingly entertaining state-of-the-nation drama'- The Stage
  'mischievous without being strident, combining pensiveness and wry humour' - Evening Standard
  'sharp yet generous-spirited... [Hope] earns its final glow of optimism by being a critical, hard-edged play that is not a cynical one... it's rather beautiful' - The Times
  'Jack Thorne's play about local authority cuts could not be more timely: what is equally important is that it entertains even as it offers a call to arms... [Hope] is part of a valuable tradition in combining the residual optimism of David Hare with the preoccupation with process of David Edgar. But it exists on its own terms and is particularly good on edgy personal relationships... it resonantly lives up to its title' - Guardian

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  Sonnets of Sin & Salvation - A...

  Henry R Bouchot

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  In Sonnets of Sin & Salvation, Henry Bouchot, a local city councilman with a close-up view of America's partisan strife, takes us on a guided journey through the seven circles of modern political hell. With wit, wryness, and plenty of real-life, examples, Henry shows us an unexpected way out of our political purgatory.

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  Charlotte Mew - Chapter & Verse...

  Charlotte Mew

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Charlotte Mew - An Introduction 
  2 - Some Ways of Love by Charlotte Mew 
  3 - Fin de Fete by Charlotte Mew 
  4 - The Fete by Charlotte Mew 
  5 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew 
  6 - Moorland Night by Charlotte Mew 
  7 - The Farmer's Bride by Charlotte Mew 
  8 - The Forest Road by Charlotte Mew 
  9 - On the Road to the Sea by Charlotte Mew 
  10 - Sea Love by Charlotte  Mew 
  11 - Madeline in Church by Charlotte Mew  
  12 - Ken by Charlotte Mew 
  13 - The Centoaph by Charlotte Mew 
  14 - In Nunhead Cemetery by Charlotte Mew 
  15 - Passed by Charlotte Mew

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  The Physicists

  Friedrich Dürrenmatt

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  Johann Mobius, the world’s greatest physicist, is locked away in a madhouse along with two other scientists.  Why?  Because he is haunted by recurring visions of King Solomon, and the other two are convinced they are Einstein and Newton.   But are these three actually mad?  Or are they playing a murdererous game with the world at stake?  This darkly comic satire probes the cost of sanity among men of science and whether it is the mad who are the truly sane.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Anne Gee Byrd, Matthew Patrick Davis, Bruce Davison, John de Lancie, Matt Gaydos, Harry Groener, Christopher Guilmet, Melinda Page Hamilton, Gregory Itzin, Roma Maffia and Missy Yager.The Physicists is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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