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  Low Level Panic (NHB Modern Plays)

  Clare McIntyre

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  Three flatmates. A single bathroom. And a whole world of men.
  In this funny, unapologetic play, three twenty-something women figure out how they really feel about sex, their bodies and each other. With a vibrancy and stylistic freedom, Low Level Panic interrogates the effects of society's objectification of women.
  Low Level Panic premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 1988, winning the Samuel Beckett Award. This edition was published alongside its first major revival at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 2017.
  'Low level panic is the constant fear that runs through women's lives like a cold underground stream, its source is male violence and it is fed by tributaries of pornography. Clare McIntyre's play looks at the repercussions this fear has on the lives of three women' - Time Out
  'McIntyre has a deadly accurate ear, a subtle sense of humour and a deep fund of compassion: she writes with thrilling understanding' - Sunday Times

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  Metamorphoses (NHB Modern Plays)

  Ovid Ovid, Laura Lomas, Sabrina...

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  From the everyday to the astonishing, and the ordinary to the miraculous, the Roman poet Ovid's stories of epic impossibilities explore the power of transformation, the resilience of humans, and the wonder of life.
  The myths of Metamorphoses have inspired generations of writers, including Shakespeare. Over two thousand years later, they are reimagined for our world by three leading British playwrights, and feature anarchy, shape-shifting and a burning chariot of fire.
  This entertaining and provocative new play, by Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz, was written for the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe, London. It was first performed by four actors in 2021, and directed by Globe Associate Artistic Director, Sean Holmes and Associate Artistic Director of Headlong, Holly Race Roughan.

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  When You Cure Me (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jack Thorne

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  A painful - and painfully funny - play about being very young and in love - and coping with serious illness at the same time.
  Rachel and Peter are seventeen. They have been going out for six months. It's love's young dream. Then Rachel gets ill - seriously ill. She doesn't want her mum to fuss; she doesn't want Alice to pretend she's her best friend; and she certainly doesn't want Alice's boyfriend telling bad jokes at her bedside. The only person she wants is Peter, but Peter doesn't know what it is that he wants.
  When You Cure Me premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2005.
  'In one of the year's finest pieces of new writing... a compassionate, gripping portrait of a fledgling relationship that is asked to bear more than many well-established marriages' Evening Standard
  'painstakingly honest... acutely observant of the petty rivalries and jealousies that sickness provokes' Guardian
  '[has] a merciless precision... a brave piece of writing that, with its damaged and angry heroine, unflinchingly shows us not a vision of saintly suffering, but a far more engagingly human struggle for survival'  The Times

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  Ode An

  Edward Granville Browne

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of An Ode by Táhirih (Fátimih Baraghání) (1814/1817 – 1852), Translated by Edward Granville Browne (1862 – 1926). This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010.Fátimih Baraghání (1814/1817 – 1852), also known by the titles of Táhirih (Arabic for “The Pure One”) and Qurratu’l-‘Ayn (Arabic for “Consolation of the Eyes”) was an influential Iranian poet and Bábí heroine from the town of Qazvín. Her legacy is important to Bahá’ís, as well as supporters of women’s rights in Iran. In 1844, she became the seventeenth disciple or “Letter of the Living” of the Báb (1819-1850). As the only woman in this initial group of disciples, she is often compared to Mary Magdalene. From June-July 1848, she attended the Conference of Badasht where she appeared without a veil in public (a shocking statement of women’s rights) and declared that a new religious dispensation had been inaugurated. Coincidentally, shortly after this, the Seneca Falls Convention (an important women’s rights convention) was held in New York on the 19th-20th of July, 1848. She was executed in Tehran in 1852. Before her death, she said that although she would be killed, they could not stop the emancipation of women. Edward Granville Browne described her thus: “The appearance of such a woman as Qurratu’l-‘Ayn is in any country and any age a rare phenomenon, but in such a country as Persia it is a prodigy—nay, almost a miracle. Alike in virtue of her marvellous beauty, her rare intellectual gifts, her fervid eloquence her fearless devotion, and her glorious martyrdom, she stands forth incomparable and immortal amidst her countrywomen.” This poem is a ghazal composed in the Kámil metre. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. Browne notes that this poem appears to be addressed to the Báb. Browne made a versified translation of the poem, which first appeared in the J.R.A.S. in 1899. (Summary by Nicholas James Bridgewater)

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  The Lucky Spot

  Beth Henley

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  It’s Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15-year-old Cassidy Smith is very pregnant with the child of 40ish Reed Hooker. Cassidy is desperate to marry Reed, Reed is desperate to open Louisiana’s hottest new taxi-dancing emporium and neither are prepared for the arrival of Reed’s wife, Sue Jack Hooker, a dangerous beauty who has just been let out of the penitentiary. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley spins one of her most colorful tales, as she follows a hilarious band of ne’er-do-wells trying to scratch dreams from the Louisiana mud.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jack Black, Brandon Maggart, Jim McLure, Laurel Moglen, Elizabeth Ruscio, Jean Smart and Kurtwood Smith.

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  Librivox Multilingual Short...

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.Brief description of the contributions:01 - Japanese - Sennin [1922]: prose, fiction, Oosaka, wizard02 - Japanese - Mangan [1938]: prose, fiction, Mishima, doctor03 - Latin - Pange lingua (gloriosi proelium certaminis) [6th Century]: poetry, medieval Latin04 - Japanese - Matsurino ban: prose, fiction, children, festival05 - Bulgarian - ????????? (Balaniadi) [1917]: poetry, satire06 - Bisaya - ¡“Fuera” kapyot! [1921]: prose, itoy-itoy07 - Tagalog - Ang Aral ni Ina [1915]: poetry, mother's wisdom, pantas na salita08 - Latin - Pange Lingua (Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis): poetry, chant, Lent, Christianity09 - Tagalog - ¡Bulalakaw...! [1915]: poetry, shooting star10 - French - La Main: Short fiction, supernatural11 - Japanese - Kako: prose,fiction,memory,matchstick12 - Bisaya - Si Inday, Lider na sa Piniliay [1921]: prose, women equal with men in politics13 - Tagalog - Tag-ulan [1915]: poetry, rainy season14 - Japanese - Nyusyano ji [1907]: prose,non-fiction,university,newspaper15 - Welsh - Sion a Sian (poem IX) [1911]: poetry, children, nursery rhyme, plant, gerdd16 - Japanese - Piano: prose, fiction, Yokohama, piano17 - Japanese - Aosuisen Akasuisen [1922]: prose,fiction,children,narcissus18 - Chinese - ???? (Shuidiaogetou): prose, Chinese, Song Dynasty19 - Polish - O doktorze Hiszpanie [1883]: poetry, poezja, fraszka, alkohol20 - Polish - Czlowiek Boze igrzysko [1883]: poetry, poezja, pycha, czlowiek, Bóg21 - French - Misère [1832]: poetry, hunger, misery22 - Tagalog - Sa Aking Mga Kabatà [1906]: poetry, all languages are alike, "ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika ay higit sa hayop at malansang isda"23 - Danish - Flugten til Amerika [1900]: Poetry, children24 - French - Le chapeau de Sans-Âme [1887]: prose, fiction, short story, Provence, hat25 - Japanese - Hatsukoi [1897]: poetry, first love, apple26 - Polish - Zona modna [1882-3]: poetry, poezja, satyra, moda27 - Japanese - Umi: prose, non-fiction, sea28 - Japanese - Nobara [1922]: prose, fiction, war, wild rose

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