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  Boy

  Anne Ziegler

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  Anna Ziegler’s Boy is a powerful statement about sexual identity and the mystery of what makes us who we are. After a baby boy is seriously injured in an accident, a doctor persuades his parents to raise the child as a girl. As the child grows up, the child—known as Samantha and Adam at different times—faces an extraordinary challenge to carve out a place in the world. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Sarah Drew as JennyJohn Getz as Dr. Wendell BarnesTravis Johns as DougAmy Pietz as TrudyBobby Steggert as Adam Turner Directed by Debbie Devine. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in July of 2016. Boy is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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  Shoulder Tap

  Maurice Riordan

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  Throughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves. The effect is unpredictable and thrilling, at once a dark art and an illumination of unease and loss and wishfulness. The collection features disquieting songs of a mutable self alongside poignant elegies, interior journeys and subtle (and not so subtle) ripostes to the legacy of Trumpism - while elsewhere encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Laforgue. These poems twinkle with mischief and humour, making for a pungent and haunting read. Riordan - a poet whose strong, rippling influence is felt by all in his wake - affirms his reputation at the forefront of contemporary poetry.

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  Short Poetry Collection 072

  Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of October 2008.

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  Bleak Expectations (NHB Modern...

  Mark Evans

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  The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin…
  Follow half-orphan Pip's extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit, as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly Mr Gently Benevolent, defeat the hideous Hardthrasher siblings, and deflect disaster at every turn! Will evil be vanquished by virtue? Can love triumph over hate?
  Mark Evans' stage play Bleak Expectations is a hilarious, chaotic caper, featuring dastardly villains, preposterous names, pulse-quickening romances, heart-rending death scenes, and definitely, probably, hopefully a happy ending.
  Based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, the play opened at The Watermill Theatre, Newbury, in 2022, directed by Caroline Leslie. It transferred to the Criterion Theatre in London's West End in 2023, where it featured a medley of many well-known actors and comedians.
  It offers rich opportunities to amateur theatre companies looking for a gloriously daft Dickensian romp which will have their audiences joyfully transported and begging for more.
  'Dickens with a dash of Monty Python… nimbly combines period detail with a sense of the absurd… immaculately polished puns and in-jokes' - The Times
  'A fast-paced comedy mashup that sends up Britishness with oodles of silliness… zings with intelligence, imagination and comic anarchy' - Guardian
  'Cheek-achingly funny… a ceaseless stream of quick one-liners that delivers laugh after laugh of pure entertainment… a great night out' - Broadway World

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  The Road to Mecca

  Athol Fugard

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  When her husband dies, aging Miss Helen begins to fill her home in the remote South African bush with strange sculptures made from beer cans and old headlights. A local clergyman and a young woman visitor try to decide whether Miss Helens peculiar art is an outpouring of creativity or an outbreak of madness. An incandescent drama by South Africa’s most celebrated playwright.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Julie Harris, Amy Irving and Harris Yulin.

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  Why Would a Unicorn Learn Ballet...

  Rachel Jessop, Tammy Appenzellar

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  Shona wants to learn ballet and what all the cool French words mean. She asks for help, and Dreamy the Unicorn comes to her rescue, taking them on a magical and fabulous journey of learning! 
  There is plenty of magic in Dreamy the Unicorn’s horn. They meet Tammy, a French ballet teacher, and journey together to a ballet school, a ballet production, and go behind the scenes, while learning key French words used in the world of ballet.  
  Everything you ever wanted to know about getting started in ballet including clothing and shoes, hair styles and stage make-up, feet positions, auditions, productions, and how to take a bow are in this go-to book for young girls and boys interested in becoming a real ballet dancer and mastering the French words that go with it. 

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