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  The Last of the Pelican...

  Ensemble The Wardrobe

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  In folklore, pelican mothers feed their young on their own blood. In 2019, four sisters are trying to divide their mother's house between them.
  Joy wants a baby, Storm wants to be seen, Sage wants to be paid, Maya doesn't want anyone to find out her secret and Granny's in a wheelchair on day release. Mum's presence still seeps through the ceiling and the floors. The Pelican Daughters are home for the last time.
  The Wardrobe Ensemble's play The Last of the Pelican Daughters is a comedy about four sisters trying to come to terms with their mother's death. It combines the company's trademark irreverent humour and lovable characters to tackle the idea of what it means for young people to grapple with inheritance, loss and justice.
  The Last of the Pelican Daughters was first staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019.
  'Just wonderful. The show captures the little rifts and rivalries that exist between the sisters and it has an ace up its sleeve in the form of a gorgeous, heart-flooding movement sequence' - The Stage

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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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  The Star

  Jane Taylor

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  To take you back to your childhood, LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Star by Jane Taylor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 24, 2013.

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  A Terrible Beauty - Poetry of 1916

  Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald

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   'A terrible beauty is born' 
   WB Yeats's poignant words have come to immortalise the complex legacy of the Easter Rising, 1916. The poetry that emerged at this time of upheaval in Ireland gave voice to the thoughts of a generation. Yeats's poem, 'Easter 1916', sits alongside selected works of other major poets of the era. These include Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett, who were executed for their part in the Rising. 
   In the aftermath of the Rising an outpouring of poetry also expressed the shock and grief of literary figures such as Padraic Colum, Francis Ledwidge, Eva Gore-Booth, James Stephens, Dora Sigerson Shorter and Seán O'Casey. Rebels, soldiers, honorary Irishmen, sympathisers and exiles all held up a mirror, in verse, to the events, beliefs and desires bound up in 1916. 

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  Little Women - Book Two

  Louisa May Alcott

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  With the four March daughters grown into womanhood, discover the rest of the story with the death of Beth, Meg's twin babies, the introduction of Professor Baer for Jo, and Amy's romantic travels to Europe's art schools.  
  STARRING: SHELLY LONG as Jo, BEVERLY GARLAND as Marta, BAIBRE DOWLING as Mae, CORNELIA HAYES O'HERLIHY as Beth, JOHN ASTIN as Professor Baer, JANET WALDO as Amy, JOANNE WORLEY as Aunt Marsh, LEON ADAMS as Lorrie, WILLIAM WINDOM as Mr. Lawrence, THOMAS MacGREEVY as John Brooke; AND, CART's Announcer, JOHN HARLAN.  
  (For More Details Visit: www.cartradio.com)

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  A Spring Harvest - Edited by JRR...

  Geoffrey Bache Smith, Charles...

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  The poems of this book were written at very various times, one (“Wind over the Sea”) I believe even as early as 1910, but the order in which they are here given is not chronological beyond the fact that the third part contains only poems written after the outbreak of the war. Of these some were written in England (at Oxford in particular), some in Wales and very many during a year in France from November 1915 to December 1916, which was broken by one leave in the middle of May. “The Burial of Sophocles,” which is here placed at the end, was begun before the war and continued at odd times and in various circumstances afterwards; the final version was sent me from the trenches. Beyond these few facts no prelude and no envoi is needed other than those here printed as their author left them. J. R. R. T.

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