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  The Tragedy of Coriolanus

  William Shakespeare

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  Pride, justice, and vengeance. Aristocracy and democracy vie for ultimate power over Rome, and each faction violently erupts when Coriolanus takes the political stage. After receiving glorious accolades for taking an enemy city when the plebian soldiers cowered without the gates, the common people find his arrogance and pride offensive. Now, banished from the very city for which he was prepared to lay down his life, he strikes up an unholy alliance with his country's enemies. His intent is clear - to wreak upon Rome the full magnitude of his unparalleled revenge.
  
  Three years ago, BJ Harrison revolutionized the Shakespeare/audiobook format in his groundbreaking production of Hamlet. Now he brings the perhaps lesser known but equally powerful Tragedy of Coriolanus onto the audio stage.
  
  Not only is the text well interpreted and presented, the play has been optimized for the audiobook format. To make the text more understandable in the audio format, an introduction is read at the beginning of each act. Also, each speaker is clearly marked with his own voice and narrative tags. This is the perfect way to discover the wonders of Shakespeare in an audio format. Students and Shakespeare veterans alike will enjoy this powerful production.

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  Top 10 Poets The - The War Poets...

  Wilfred Owen

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  War may be called diplomacy by other means but for the youth of a nation, pressed into service for that nation, its effects are horror, terror, injury, trauma and the likelihood of death.  Within the words of these 10 poets, dreams, ambition and reality collide into some very vivid and moving words. 
  1 - The Top 10 Poets - The War Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - Soldier's Dream by Wilfred Owen 
  3 - Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 
  4 - Futility by Wilfred Owen 
  5 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
  6 - Sonnet - On Seeing A Piece of Our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action by Wilfred Owen 
  7 - This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong by Edward Thomas 
  8 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 
  9 - The Trumpet by Edward Thomas 
  10 - Cock Crow by Edward Thomas 
  11 - Adlestrop by Edward Thomas 
  12 - Libido by Rupert Brooke 
  13 - Dead Men's Love by Rupert Brooke 
  14 - Desertion by Rupert Brooke 
  15 - The Funeral of Youth. Threnody by Rupert Brooke 
  16 - Soldier by Rupert Brooke 
  17 - Killed in Action by Isaac Rosenberg 
  18 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  19 - Spring 1916 by Isaac Rosenberg 
  20 - Isolation A Fragment by Isaac Rosenberg 
  21 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 
  22 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge 
  23 - A Soldier's Grave by Francis Ledwidge 
  24 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  25 - Growing Old by Francis Ledwidge 
  26 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 
  27 - Blighty by Ivor Gurney 
  28 - Sonnets 1917 - V - England the Mother by Ivor Gurney 
  29 - On Somme by Ivor Gurney 
  30 - Strange Hells by Ivor Gurney 
  31 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Ivor Gurney 
  32 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 
  33 - No Coward's Song by James Elroy Flecker 
  34 - Pillage by James Elroy Flecker 
  35 - Destroyer of Ships, Men, Cities by James Elroy Flecker 
  36 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker 
  37 - The English Graves by Laurence Binyon 
  38 - The Distant Guns by Laurence Binyon 
  39 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon 
  40 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 
  41 - Ypres by Laurence Binyon 
  42 - A Call to Action by Charles Sorley 
  43 - A Letter From the Trenches to An Old School Friend by Charles Sorley 
  44 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley 
  45 - German Rain by Charles Sorley 
  46 - To Germany by Charles Sorley 
  47 - Prayer Before Battle by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  48 - The Battle at Saarburg by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  49 - Monday in the Courtyard of the Barracks by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  50 - Soldiers' Songs by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  51 - The End by Alfred Lichtenstein

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  Red Pitch - (West End edition)

  Tyrell Williams

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  'The way they're changing endz is nuts.'
  Red Pitch. South London. Three lifelong friends Omz, Bilal and Joey are playing football. Like they always have. Living out dreams of football stardom. Beyond their football pitch, local shops are closing, old flats are being demolished as new flats shoot up, some residents struggle to stay while others rush to leave.
  A coming-of-age story about what it means to belong somewhere, Tyrell Williams' fast-paced and sharp-edged play tells a powerful story about gentrification, regeneration and the impact of this relentless change on London's communities.
  Red Pitch received an ecstatic critical and audience response when it was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in February 2022, directed by Associate Artistic Director Daniel Bailey. The production was revived at the Bush in September 2023, and transferred to @sohoplace in London's West End in March 2024.
  For Red Pitch, Tyrell Williams won the Evening Standard Theatre Award and the Critics' Circle Theatre Award both for Most Promising Playwright, The Stage Debut Award for Best Writer, the George Devine Award, as well as the Off West End Award for Best New Play.
  An earlier version of the play was presented in June 2019, as part of the Untold Season at Ovalhouse, London.

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  Jazz Fantasia

  Carl Sandburg

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  As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is central, but not so clearly defined, so we had to play around and improvise.  Every reading is unique!  (Summary by LauraFox)

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  Adam and Eve

  John Milton

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From “Paradise Lost,” Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 (though written nearly ten years earlier) in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification; most of the poem was written while Milton was blind, and was transcribed for him.Milton first presents Adam and Eve in Book IV with impartiality. The relationship between Adam and Eve is one of "mutual dependence, not a relation of domination or hierarchy." While the author does place Adam above Eve in regard to his intellectual knowledge, and in turn his relation to God, he also grants Eve the benefit of knowledge through experience. ( Summary from Wikipedia)

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  Apology for the Life of Mrs...

  Henry Fielding

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  An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fielding and first published in April 1741 under the name of Mr. Conny Keyber. Fielding never owned to writing the work, but it is widely considered to be his. It is a direct attack on the then-popular novel Pamela (November 1740) by Fielding's contemporary and rival Samuel Richardson and is composed, like Pamela, in epistolary form. Shamela is written as a shocking revelation of the true events which took place in the life of Pamela Andrews, the main heroine of Pamela. From Shamela we learn that, instead of being a kind, humble, and chaste servant-girl, Pamela (whose true name turns out to be Shamela) is in fact a wicked and lascivious creature, scheming to entrap her master, Squire Booby, into marriage. (Summary by Wikipedia)CastNarrator: Patti CunninghamShamela: KristingjWilliams: Martin GeesonTickletext: Chuck WilliamsonLucretia: April GonzalesHenrietta: Margaret EspaillatOliver: Algy PugBooby: Herman RoskamsPuff: Bob GonzalezConny: NoelBadrianEditor: Patti Cunningham

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