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  Fifty Shades of April - 50 of...

  John Clare, Hafiz, Henry...

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  The fourth month of the Gregorian calendar historically brings April showers, sunshine, touches of warmth and bursts of colour from tree and land. Buds, blossom, leaves, the great symphony of nature cascades across the landscape. Wildlife has new broods of life to nurture and provide for. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of April - An Introduction 
  02 - In April by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  03 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  04 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  05 - April Rain by Mathilde Blind 
  06 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage 
  07 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson 
  08 - April by Sara Teasdale 
  09 - On a Nightingale in April by William Sharpe 
  10 - The Idlers Calender - April - Trout Fishing by William Scawen Blunt 
  11 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare 
  12 - Loveliest Of Trees, The Cherry Now by A E Housman 
  13 - Sonnet To April by Henry Kirk White 
  14 - Sonnet VIII - To Spring by Charlotte Smith 
  15 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman 
  16 - A Petition To April, Written During Sickness by Susanna Blamire 
  17 - The Soul of April by Bliss William Carman 
  18 - The Days of Spring by Hafiz 
  19 - A Pang Is More Conspicuous in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  20 - Easter by Edmund Spenser 
  21 - A Spring Carol by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  22 - Dublin, Easter 1916 by Alice Furlong 
  23 - April Evening, France, April 1916 by John William Streets 
  24 - In Memoriam (Easter 1915) by Edward Thomas 
  25 - April, 1918 by Henry Christopher Bradby 
  26 - Elegy in April and September by Wilfred Owen 
  27 - The Easter Flower by Claude McKay 
  28 - April 1844 by Henry Alford 
  29 - Sheep and Lambs by Katharine Tynan 
  30 - Child's Talk in April by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  31 - An April Fool by Alfred Austin 
  32 - The Famous Speech Maker of England or Baron Lovel's Charge at the Assizes at Exon April 5th 1710 by Jonathan Swift 
  33 - Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  34 - Rome - Building a New Street in The Ancient Quarter, April 1887 by Thomas Hardy 
  35 - Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay 
  36 - April by John Bannister Tabb 
  37 - Home Thoughts From Abroad by Robert Browning 
  38 - Stanzas April 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  39 - Over the Lands In April by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  40 - Spring Morning by A E Housman 
  41 - Cuckoo Song By Rudyard Kipling 
  42 - It Was an April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  43 - April by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  44 - An April Love by Alfred Austin 
  45 - Another Song - an extract from Divine Songs and Meditacions by An Collins 
  46 - Sonnet 98 - From You Have I Been Absent in the Spring by William Shakespeare 
  47 - So Sweet Love Seemed That April Morn by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  48 - My April Lady by Henry Van Dyke 
  49 - Love Like an April Day Beguiles by James Bland Burgess 
  50 - With A Guitar, To Jane by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  51 - The Shepheardes Calendar IV - April by Edmund Spenser

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  The Anarchist (NHB Modern Plays)

  Karina Wiedman

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  Middle-aged, middle-management Dasha is ordered to quell the anti-government protests in her factory in Belarus by firing sixty workers.
  Her only escape is a one-way ticket to the US, but as she prepares to flee, she cannot escape memories of her rebellious youth resisting the Soviets. As her country heads to the polls, Dasha must make a decision…
  The Anarchist is a gripping, timely and deeply moving play, which won the inaugural Woven Voices Prize for migrant playwrights. It was first performed during the Footprints Festival at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2022, directed by Ebenezer Bamgboye.
  Originally from Kazakhstan, Karina Wiedman lived in Russia and Belarus before moving to the UK. The Anarchist is her first play.
  'A beautifully written play for our times' Jatinder Verma, Chair of the Woven Voices Prize judging panel

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  Big Bang - Running amok

  Enrico Bernard

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  How can a normal person become a serial killer? A retired haunted by loneliness is assailed by fear that the outside world wants to cancel his miserable existence. BIG BANG is the tip of a pin that pokes at the reflection on our time of "crisis", giving the dramaturgy its ancient sense of surgery of the spirit that operates on the evil of the century and that tries to remove the boil of fear that has taken root in the walls of the individual unconscious. Thus the "theatricality of Being" of the protagonist of BIG BANG explodes in everyone's consciousness as a sign of danger and of schizophrenic fracture between fearful reality and interiority understood as the "last refuge".

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  Three Women and a Piano Tuner...

  Helen Cooper

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  An offbeat, lyrical drama about how our hopes and dreams can be thwarted by the choices we make - and by the ones we don't make.
  Ella's got a project. After ten years she has completed her piano concerto, and now she needs the help of Liz and Beth to get it performed. But first they've got some history to negotiate, and some old scores to settle.
  'a complex, slippery study of psychological crisis... poignant and roaringly funny' - The Times
  'an astonishing piece - witty, emotionally raw and deeply affecting - that leaves you gasping at the imaginative ingenuity of the dramatist's central conceit... exceptionally touching and ingenious' - Telegraph
  'a strong, beautiful, haunting play' - Sunday Times

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  Bang Bang Bang (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stella Feehily

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  Stella Feehily brings her trademark wit and emotional insight to this revealing play that goes behind the public face of charities, journalists and NGOs, and is drawn directly from workshops and interviews with aid workers, doctors, human rights defenders, government advisers, journalists and photographers.
  A seasoned human rights defender and her idealistic young colleague embark on a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. For Mathilde, it's an induction into a life less ordinary. For Sadhbh it's back to madness and chaos away from her lover and London - exactly as she likes it.
  But while Mathilde lets off steam with a photographer and a spliff, Sadhbh has her own encounter: tea with a smart but brutal young warlord she's investigating.
  'ambitious, well-researched and sharply presented' - Guardian
  'Stella Feehily's best work to date' - Whatsonstage.com

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  Sacred Elephant

  Heathcote Williams

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  Sacred Elephant is a moving portrayal of the world’s largest land-living mammal. The poem explores the life of elephants in their natural habitat and in captivity, and details their relentless destruction at the hands of man. Evocatively read by the author, the poem is accompanied by a second disc containing a fascinating compilation of facts and figures from elephant history. Sensitively underscored with classical music.

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