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  Anna Christie

  Eugene O'Neill

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  Eugene O'Neill's drama Anna Christie was first produced on Broadway in 1921 and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1922.  It focuses on three main characters: Chris Christopherson, a Swedish captain of a coal barge and longtime seaman, his daughter Anna, who has grown up separated from her father on a Minnesota farm, and Mat Burke, an Irish stoker who works on steamships.  At the beginning of the play Chris and Anna are reunited after fifteen years apart.  Anna comes to live on her father's coal barge, but hides the secret of her past from him.  When she meets Mat after an accident in the fog, they almost immediately fall in love - but Anna finds that forging a new future will not be easy.  (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast"Johnny-the-priest": NullifidianFirst Longshoreman/Voice: jwgSecond Longshoreman/Johnson: Marty KrisPostman: Max KorlingeLarry: Matthew ReeceChris Christopherson: Lars RolanderMarthy Owen: Pat RedstoneAnna Christopherson: Elizabeth KlettMat Burke: Tadhg HynesNarrator: David GoldfarbAudio edited by Elizabeth Klett

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  Van Gogh in Brixton

  Shaun Traynor

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  An emotional poetic narrative of love lost, love regained.

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  Biscuits for Breakfast (NHB...

  Gareth Farr

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  They don't seem an obvious match. Joanne is spiky, defensive, a survivor; Paul is quiet, considered – and hiding profound grief for his father. But the pleasure he takes in cooking – and the astonishing food he prepares – creates a bond between them.
  When the hotel where they both work closes and they start to spiral into poverty, it throws everything up in the air – first their plans for a cookbook and a restaurant, and, eventually, even their dreams of a future together…
  Gareth Farr's play Biscuits for Breakfast is a tender, heartfelt drama about families – the ones we inherit and the ones we create – and the struggle to survive when times get tough. It opened at Hampstead Theatre, London, in May 2023, directed by Tessa Walker.
  'Sparks fly in a foodie love story… Gareth Farr's two-hander has energy and passion and fire' - The Times
  'Powerful… a stirring two-hander about love of food and lack of food' - The Stage
  'Compassionate and heartbreaking' - WhatsOnStage
  'A deeply touching, yet defiantly unromantic relationship drama… paints a picture of a society in which ambitions are thwarted and ordinary working people are driven into poverty… Everything about Farr's play rings true and it should serve as a wake up call to anyone who is prone to taking comfortable lifestyles for granted' - Reviews Hub

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  Poetry Hour The - Volume 18

  Edmund Spenser, Dante Gabriel...

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  Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words.  The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one.  But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.  Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. 
   
  Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today.  
   
  Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations.   
   
  In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Edmund Spenser and Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as themes on The Female Poet, The Wind & Rain, Evenings and more. 
   
  All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t.  Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes.  Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores.  
   
  This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that.   
   
  Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. 
   
   
  The Poetry Hour – Volume 18 
  Edmund Spenser – An Introduction 
  Sonnet – One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand by Edmund Spenser 
  Shepherd’s Calendar. IV – April by Edmund Spenser 
  The Poetry of Evenings 
  The Evening Darkens Over by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  Sweet Evenings Come and Go Love by George Eliot 
  A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge 
  A Summer Evening Courtyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershireby by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  The Red Sunsets by Mathilde Blind 
  Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell 
  Sunset by HP Lovecraft 
  How the Old Mountains Drip with Sunset by Emily Dickinson 
  The Female Poet. An Introduction – Volume 5 
  Winter, My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti  
  Sonnet LXXI by Charlotte Smith  
  Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale  
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan  
  On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley  
  A World Worth Living In by Ella Wheeler Wilcox  
  Sonnet XIV by Mary Wroth  
  Dante Gabriel Rossetti - An Introduction 
  On Refusal of Aid Between Nations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Sacrament Hymn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  The Kiss by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Troy Town by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Willow Wood - Sonnet II by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
  Willow Wood – Sonnet IV by Dante Gabriel Rossetti  
  The Poetry of Wind and Rain - An Introduction 
  Sudden Shower by John Clare  
  There Came A Wind Like a Bugle by Emily Dickinson 
  The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore 
  The Storm by George Herbert 
  Rainy Night by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  Victorian Poetry – An Introduction 
  The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  A Match by Algernon Swinburne  
  Maternity by Alice Meynell  
  Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti  
  The Toys by Coventry Patmore 
  The Message of the March Wind by William Morris  
  Vita Lampada by Henry Newbolt

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  Albion (NHB Modern Plays)

  Mike Bartlett

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  In the ruins of a garden in rural England, in a house which was once a home, one woman searches for seeds of hope.
  Mike Bartlett's play Albion was premiered in October 2017 at the Almeida Theatre, London, in a production directed by Rupert Goold.
  'Something remarkable. Our country needs it' - Telegraph
  '[Has] a deeply reflective and humane quality to it: Bartlett draws his confused characters with a Chekhovian mix of wit and compassion… explores national identity through private mourning, and the meaning of the garden shifts, grows and deepens with the seasons' - Financial Times
  'Scintillating… in the sometimes abrasive but always compelling Audrey, Bartlett has written a richly imagined female lead who can be mentioned in the same breath as the self-dramatizing Arkadina in The Seagull' - New York Times
  'A work of deeply absorbing emotional richness and symphonic density' - Independent
  'Fascinating, complex… what makes the play so enormously intriguing is that, as in his King Charles III, Bartlett shows us as a deeply divided people torn between the urge to preserve the past and to radically reform it' - Guardian

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  The Book of Common Courage -...

  K.J. Ramsey, author of Honest...

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  Read by the author with extra audiobook-exclusive poems. 
  The Book of Common Courage is a collection of prayers, poems, and blessings to help you find a flicker of strength in the small and hard moments of life. Beloved author and therapist K. J. Ramsey invites you to journey word-by-word through Psalm 23 to experience how the Good Shepherd is with you and for you, especially in the valleys of life. When you struggle to find the words to hold your pain or trauma, be encouraged to cultivate the compassion and courage to believe that your story will, in fact, end in joy. 
  Through K. J.'s lyrical and emotive writing, you are invited to:Surrender your anxiety and your tears to a faithful GodValidate your emotions and embrace them as the gift they areSlow down and remember that good will come againReplenish your soul with the life of Christ and the promises of GodRefresh your faith with a peace that lastsExperience newfound confidence in prayerRemember that even when pain is not past-tense, God is still present 
    
  Courage is a common hope that we can cultivate together. These prayers and poems can be read in group settings--among friends, families, and worshipping communities--and are also ideal for personal reflection.

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