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  The Hardest Lessons - A...

  Kelvin Bueckert

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  The Hardest Lesson 
  Description:- A student about to end his life encounters a teacher about to end his career. Their relationship quickly builds to an explosive climax of choices...Yet, in the end, they find that they have both learned a valuable lesson. Although, if they were honest with themselves, they would both have to admit that it was the hardest lesson that they have ever learned... 
  Four Seasons 
  Description:-A journey through four seasons of school life...In the beginning, we see our main character creating chaos in Elementary School, as time passes, we hear about their deeply personal struggles during High School. At the end of High School, our hero delivers a moving speech on Graduation Day showing just how much they have grown up. Finally, at the end of the play, we hear our narrator as an old man, reflecting on what they have learned from their career in education.

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  The Witness (NHB Modern Plays)

  Vivienne Franzmann

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  A dark and penetrating thriller of modern morals, by the Bruntwood Prize-winning author of Mogadishu.
  Captured in an award-winning shot, Alex was rescued from Rwanda and adopted by the man behind the lens. Years later, she's back from university, returning to the Hampstead home in which she was raised. As a long-hidden secret is exposed, the distance between father and daughter stretches taut.
  The Witness premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in June 2012.
  'powerful, original and deeply moving' Telegraph
  'a marvellous piece of writing, delivered with quiet intensity and not an atom overdone' Financial Times
  'if there is a finer new play than The Witness this year, I'll be astonished' Evening Standard

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  Us Them (NHB Modern Plays)

  Carly Wijs

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  In September 2004, a group of terrorists stormed School Number One in Beslan, Russia, taking hundreds of children, their parents and teachers hostage. The ensuing siege lasted three days and left many dead.
  Us/Them is not a straightforward account of this terrible tragedy, but an exploration of the entirely individual way children cope with traumatic situations.
  Originally created for BRONKS, a theatre company for young audiences, Us/Them had a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016, winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award, and transferred to the National Theatre, London, in 2017. It was co-produced by BRONKS and Richard Jordan Productions, with Theatre Royal Plymouth and Big in Belgium, in association with Summerhall.
  'A remarkable piece of theatre – playful, surprisingly and painfully funny as well as moving' - Guardian
  'A truly outstanding piece of theatre for all ages… [makes] an inhuman ordeal somehow understandable, filtered through this very modern, accessible retelling' - The Stage
  'Haunting, unforgettable… the highlight of the Fringe' - Telegraph
  'Dazzlingly confident and utterly absorbing… presents [its] story masterfully' - Scotsman
  'An innovative piece of theatrical storytelling… the bare facts of this terrible episode are well known, but the story is given such bold, off-centre treatment in [Us/Them] that it inspires a much deeper consideration of the massacre, its context and implications, than a simple dramatisation could hope to achieve' - The Times
  'Remarkable – powerful and quietly shocking, certainly, but also one that dares to be entertaining and absurd, even playful' - The List

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  Bartholomew Roberts' Faith (The...

  Jeremy McLean

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  "My favorite thing about Jeremy McLean's writing is his ability to write such in depth characters."- Alycia Tillman "... You have to get this book, no question about it!"- Zachary What makes a man a sinner? What makes a man a saint? Where does good stop and evil begin? John Roberts considers himself a Christian, a religious man of God, but when his faith is shaken he begins to question the biblical rules he stood for his whole life. Roberts' life on a slave ship is filled with hard labour, low wages, and no chance for advancement. When Roberts becomes friends with a slave named Bartholomew, he couldn't know it would start a chain of events leading him on his first sea adventure. In an age of pirates who are slaves to no man, Roberts finds himself torn between a world of just and righteous men, and the evil sinners around every corner. Will the religious Roberts become a sinner or stay a saint during his biblical test of faith? See where Roberts' trials take him in his short stories full of action, adventure, pirates, and privateers set during the Golden Age of Piracy.

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  Love not me for comely grace

  John Wilbye

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love not me for comely grace by John Wilbye. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 30, 2012John Wilbye was an English madrigal composer, and is probably the most famous of all the English madrigalists; his pieces have long been favourites and are often included in modern collections. His style is characterized by delicate writing for the voice, acute sensitivity to the text and the use of "false relations" between the major and minor modes. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Love Notes from the Hollow Tree

  Jarod K. Anderson

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  Poet and podcaster Jarod K. Anderson (creator of The CryptoNaturalist podcast and author of Field Guide to the Haunted Forest) celebrates the natural world with warmth and humor. The poetry and prose in this collection are love letters to impermanence, to our kinship with nature, to our strange ability to conjure meaning. Vivid and approachable, the work gathered here invites listeners to rediscover commonplace wonders and find new beauty in topics ranging from moss to mortality. The poems in this collection highlight our connection to a living universe and affirm our place in a wilderness worthy of our love.

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