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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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  Boys and Girls (NHB Modern Plays)

  Dylan Coburn Gray

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  A play in verse following four young people across one night in Dublin.
  Dylan Coburn Gray's play Boys and Girls was first performed at Dublin Fringe Festival in 2013, winning the Fishamble Best New Writing Award. It was also nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust Award.

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  Anna Veronica - Finding God the...

  Anne-Lene Bleken

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  'If your path is to walk through hell, walk as if you own the place.''It's a Twin Flame story and a message from the heart!'This story will take you on a journey to sacred sites in Peru, to the volcano Pele on Hawaii, to the Indian Reservation Standing Rock in North Dakota, to the rolling hills of Ireland, to stone circles in Denmark, and to the mountains and fjords of Norway. Most of all, it will take you on a journey from the head to the heart. And so, the book is dedicated to Our Ancestors.This is the story of Anna Veronica, who as a grown-up woman becomes interested in her family history, and goes searching for her grandmother's story and what happened to her as a young woman when her little brother died so young. Just when Anna Veronica thought her life was going well, she meets her twin flame and from this point on her life will never be the same again. Slowly but surely Anna Veronica's life falls apart and more than once she is on her knees praying desperately for help to be released from stress and pain. Anna Veronica is the sequel to the novel 'Olava' but can be read independently. She is named Anna after her own grandmother, Olava's mother, and Veronica after the medicine woman that Olava met when she was young.www.annelenebleken.dk

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  Venus And Adonis (Argo Classics)

  William Shakespeare

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  William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. 
  ‘O, learn to love, the lesson is but plain, 
  And once made perfect, never lost again.’ 
  Shakespeare’s great erotic poem tells the story of Venus' obsession with the handsome Adonis 
  In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the boy hunter Adonis is the willing lover of Venus, the goddess of love, and dies accidentally. Shakespeare has Adonis reject Venus. Venus endlessly argues for making love, with Adonis uttering petulant protests. 
  All of the Shakespeare plays within the ARGO Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts, and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations. 
  Thurston Dart, Professor of Music at London University and a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, directed the music for this production. 
  The full cast includes: Irene Worth; George Rylands; Ian Lang. 
  This European masterpiece, short yet profound, is a top pick among theatre enthusiasts. The best of Shakespeare's works, it showcases the performing prowess of the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. 
  For fans of Richard Parsons (GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide), and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy).

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  Bombshells (NHB Modern Plays)

  Joanna Murray-Smith

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  Six funny and perceptive monologues about the stresses of modern female life, from the author of Honour.
  Meryl Davenport - A mother who tells the story of her non-stop day in a rapid-fire internal monologue;
  Tiggy Entwhistle - A cactus lover bravely attempting to rise above her relationship crisis; Mary O'Donnell - A feisty teenage schoolgirl competing in a talent quest;
  Theresa McTerry - An increasingly disillusioned bride on her wedding day; Winsome Webster - A widow with an appetite for the unexpected;
  Zoe Struthers - An American cabaret singer who's had her fair share of personal problems.
  'jaw-droppingly good' - Sunday Times
  'a rare combination of comedy, truth and rapture' - Guardian

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  The Three Sisters

  Anton chekhov

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  Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. It describes the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family, the three sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) and their brother Andrei. They are a family dissatisfied and frustrated with their present existence. The sisters are refined and cultured young women who grew up in urban Moscow; however for the past eleven years they have been living in a small provincial town. Moscow is a major symbolic element: the sisters are always dreaming of it and constantly express their desire to return. They identify Moscow with their happiness, and thus to them it represents the perfect life. However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dreams recede further and further. Meaning never presents itself and they are forced to seek it out for themselves. (Summary by wikipedia) 
  The Three Sisters Cast:ANDREY SERGEYEVITCH PROSOROV -  Joe SpyNATALIA IVANOVA (NATASHA), his fiancée, later his wife - AvailleOLGA - Elizabeth KlettMASHA - Arielle LipshawIRINA - Elizabeth BarrFEODOR ILITCH KULIGIN, high school teacher, married to MASHA -  mb ALEXANDER IGNATEYEVITCH VERSHININ, lieutenant-colonel in charge of a battery -  Bruce PirieNICOLAI LVOVITCH TUZENBACH, baron, lieutenant in the army -  John Fricker  VASSILI VASSILEVITCH SOLENI, captain -  Denny SayersIVAN ROMANOVITCH CHEBUTIKIN, army doctor -  Algy PugALEXEY PETROVITCH FEDOTIK, sub-lieutenant - RakenVLADIMIR CARLOVITCH RODE, sub-lieutenant - Elizabeth KlettFERAPONT, door-keeper at local council offices, an old man - David LawrenceANFISA, nurse -  AnaNarrator/Stage Directions -  Mary Herndon Bell Audio edited by Arielle Lipshaw

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