Publisher: Good Press
This is a comedic play in three acts set in the late 19th century. The play follows the wealthy and fashionable Emptage family as they navigate scandal and drama surrounding a potential divorce case. The play explores themes of family, trust, and the consequences of assumptions and misunderstandings.
A writer returning home from Palestine to his wife is gently challenged as to where exactly his priorities lie. 'I wrote the play after a number of trips to Palestine working with young playwrights,' explains Grieg. 'It tries to capture the awkwardness of return, because the people at home have carried on and are sort of grounded, while you're kind of still in the air.'Show book
Walter Matthau stars in the story of a climate scientist trying to balance romance and research. The piece is both serious and surreal as Matthau removes the “fourth wall” while addressing the show’s recording engineer. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek and Valerie Landsburg.Directed by Shaun McLoughlin. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in June, 1992.Show book
‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Music - An Introduction 2 - To Music by Rainer Maria Rilke 3 - Music by Stephen Vincent Benét 4 - Music by Wilfred Owen 5 - Power of Music by William Wordsworth 6 - Master of Music by Henry van Dyke 7 - Song 53 - What is That Flute Whose Music Thrills Me with Joy by Kabir 8 - Rain Music by Joseph Semon Cotter 9 - The Strange Music by G K Chesterton 10 - The Iron Music by Ford Madox Ford 11 - Music's Empire by Andrew Marvell 12 - Sonnet 8 - Music to Hear Why Hearest Thou Music Sadly by William Shakespeare 13 - Alexander's Feast or, The Power of Music by John DrydenShow book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George Keene. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 26, 2011.The popularity of the celebrated translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald has cast many other worthy translations into undeserved obscurity. Among the earlier translators was Henry George Keene (1781-1856) whose translation of one quatrain appeared in 'Fundgruben des Orients' in 1816.Instead of the image of the wine and cup popularly associated with the Rubaiyat, the stanza translated by Keene refers to an image even more thoroughly explored in the poem : the potter and his clay. It may be said that while the wine represents the chemistry of Omar's universe, the clay represents the physics. In this context, wine can be seen, not merely as an intoxicant, but rather as the mysterious elixir which enables the clay figures to enjoy a brief experience of life before they crumble into dust.(Summary by Algy Pug.)Show book
An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough. Hotel is in two parts: In the first, Eight Rooms, fourteen people - tourists, couples and business people - spend an ordinary night in a hotel. But they all occupy the same space, their stories overlapping and interweaving and creating an exhilarating collage of words, voices, music and choreographed movement. In the second, a dance piece entitled Two Nights, we see two distinct nights happening at the same time. Two people find different ways to disappear, while a diary found in another hotel room tells of one more extraordinary disappearance. 'Elusive, poetic, striking and substantial' - The Times 'Their pieces have the power to make you leave the theatre in an altered state' - ObserverShow book
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 006: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.Show book
