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  Short Poetry Collection 108

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2012.

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  Conor McPherson Plays: Two (NHB...

  Conor McPherson

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  The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author.
  Featuring:
  The Weir
  A magical, compelling play set in present day Dublin on Christmas Eve. Undertaker John Plunkett is sharing memories of funerals over the years and dispensing advice to his young assistant. But the arrival of his daughter Mary - estranged, grown-up - shows him the time has come to face up to his own disastrous past. Otherwise, he will never be able to create some kind of truce with his fear of the future.
  Dublin Carol
  The spellbinding, beautifully observed hit from the master of suspenseful realism; combining superbly chilling tales of the supernatural with the hilarious banter of a small community in the heart of rural Ireland.Olivier Award for Best New Play
  Evening Standard Award for Best New Playwright
  Critic's Circle Award for Most Promising New Playwright
  Port Authority
  A wry, moving, funny tale of how modern man faces up to the responsibility of love, woven in monologues.
  Come On Over
  A short play about a Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, who re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before.
  The collection also features an Afterword and in-depth interview with the author.
  'already heir to the great Irish tradition of absorbing tale-telling' - Guardian
  'The finest dramatist of his generation' - Telegraph

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  Girlhood - Poetry

  Julia Copus

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  In her fourth collection, Julia Copus explores the shifting balance of power between dangerous and destructive forces and things on the verge of becoming. Her deft and seductive poems reanimate lost figures and places from private moments and recast them in the open arena of the spoken word.Listening to this collection, one has the sense of encountering a series of filmic installations arranged by episode in a gallery. Censored or disparaged voices speak out from the secluded spaces of a professor's office, a deserted department store; from kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and upstairs windows; the witching hour and the psychiatric ward.The audiobook concludes with a series of meetings between a female patient, Marguerite, and her bullying psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan. But Lacan's domination of his patient is illusory: like other victims in this exciting new collection, she may appear vanquished, but a closer look reveals how little of herself she has really surrendered.

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  Hamlet (Argo Classics)

  William Shakespeare

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  William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. 
  ‘This above all: to thine own self be true, 
  And it must follow, as the night the day, 
  Thou canst not then be false to any man.’ 
  The searing tragedy of young student Hamlet, tormented by his father’s death and confronting each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. 
  The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. The play ends with a duel, during which the King, Queen, Hamlet's opponent and Hamlet himself are all killed. 
  All of the Shakespeare plays within the ARGO Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts, and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations. 
  Thurston Dart, Professor of Music at London University and a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, directed the music for this production. 
  The full cast includes: Patrick Wymark; Anthony White; Miles Malleson; Ian Lang; Peter Orr; David Rowe-Beddoe; Philip Strick; John Tracy-Phillips; Giles Slaughter; George Rylands; Trevor Nunn; Michael Burrell; Julian Curry; David Coombes; Tom Bussman; Hugh Walters; Gary Watson; Ronald Allen; Roger Hammond; Margaretta Scot; Jeannette Sterke; William Devlin. 
  This top-performing adaptation of Hamlet, a European classic, brings the best of theatre to the forefront. The intricate plot and timeless themes are masterfully brought to life by the talented cast. 
  For fans of Richard Parsons (GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide), and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy).

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  Water Whispers audio poem

  Kaitlynzq

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  Water Whispers audio poemmultiple poems designed to connectto form a story as a heart’s breathan excerpt from Water Whispers audio poem“new, unfamiliar, and yet, I knowa paintbrush, most delicate of touchalong the fabric of an instruments stringsto know you, my love”

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  The Last Witch (NHB Modern Plays)

  Rona Munro

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  A play about the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland, The Last Witch explores the psychological rifts that can divide close communities and drive families apart.
  Dornoch, northern Scotland, 1727. In the claustrophobic heat of summer, a woman's apparent ability to manipulate the power of land and sea stirs suspicion. Janet Horne can cure beasts, call the wind and charm fish out of the sea. Or can she? Her refusal to deny the charge of witchcraft puts her in dangerous opposition to the new sheriff. Her defiance threatens not only her own life but that of her daughter...
  Rona Munro's play The Last Witch is based on the historical account of Janet Horne, the last woman to be executed for witchcraft in Scotland.
  The play was commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival and co-produced by the Festival and the Traverse Theatre Company. It opened at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 2009.
  'Thrilling... seethes with poetry and emotion and is entirely gripping' - Guardian
  'A powerful, poetic and unsettling supernatural thriller' - Scotsman

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