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  Lobby Hero

  Kenneth Lonergan

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  Playwright Kenneth Lonergan has made a career of creating characters whose considerable flaws often get in the way of their good intentions. In Lobby Hero, two menial security guards are embroiled in an unexpected family fiasco… and the local beat police are divided by their own romantic and political allegiances.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Tate Donovan as BillCedric Sanders as WilliamEmily Swallow as Dawn Michael Weston as JeffDirected by Bart DeLorenzo. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  Wolf Kisses (NHB Modern Plays)

  Paloma Pedrero

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  A luminous tale from Spain, about a young woman who returns to her rural village home to await her Parisian lover. Despite the hostility of the villagers, her faith that her lover will return remains undiminished.
  Paloma Pedrero's play Wolf Kisses was first performed in this English translation by Roxana Silbert at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1997.

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  Crows - Encounters with the Wise...

  Candace Savage

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  A treasure trove of stories, poems, and information on the brainy, black-feathered bird that’s rich in insight and humor. This revised and expanded edition of Candace Savage’s best-selling book about ravens and crows is enhanced by additional paintings, drawings, and photos, as well as a fascinating selection of first-person stories and poems about remarkable encounters with crows. In one story, a pack of crows brilliantly thwarts an attack by a Golden Eagle; in another, a mischievous crow rescues the author from grief. And in a third piece, after nursing a battered baby crow back to health until it flies off with other crows, Louise Erdrich hauntingly describes her altered awareness as she listens for the “dark laugh” of crows while she works. Based on two decades of audacious research by scientists around the world, the book also provides an unprecedented, evidence-based glimpse into corvids’ intellectual, social, and emotional lives. But whether viewed through the lens of science, myth, or everyday experience, the result is always the same. These birds are so smart—and so mysterious—they take your breath away.Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.Praise for Crows “A beautifully crafted celebration of these birds.” —Nature “A deft juxtaposition of interesting anecdotes and firsthand accounts of scientific discoveries.” —Canadian Literature “Surprising avian revelations are contained within the pages of Savage’s glorious festival of crow arcana.” —Alberta Views

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  Orchids in the Moonlight (NHB...

  Carlos Fuentes

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  A dream play about two Mexican women exiled in Hollywood's maze of mirrors.
  Set in Venice the day Orson Welles died, this extraordinary play relentlessly stretches the imagination with artistic reveries and supernatural fantasies.
  Taken from the collection, Latin American Plays, an essential introduction to the fascinating but largely unexplored theatre of Latin America, Orchids in the Moonlight  by Carlos Fuentes is 'rich in language and movement, fantasy and reality, sensuality and cruelty; as iconoclastic as the magic realist boom of the 1960s' (Scotland on Sunday).
  The full collection features new translations of five contemporary plays written by some of the region's most exciting writers. Each play is accompanied by an illuminating interview with its author conducted by the theatre director, Sebastian Doggart, who has also selected and translated the plays and provided an introductory history of Latin American drama.
  The collection also includes:
  Rappaccini's Daughter by Octavio Paz
  A play by the Mexican Nobel laureate.
  Night of the Assassins by José Triana
  A controversial Cuban play in which three siblings plot the murder of their parents.
  Saying Yes by Griselda Gambaro
  A grotesque comedy from Argentina about man's inhumanity to man.
  Mistress of Desires by Mario Vargas Llosa
  Peru's most acclaimed writer interweaves reality and fantasy in an erotically charged tale.

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  Grandma's Prayer

  Eugene Field

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Grandma's Prayer by Eugene Field . This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 4, 2011.Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse. Over a dozen volumes of poetry followed and he became well known for his light-hearted poems for children, perhaps the most famous of which is "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod." (Summary from Wikipedia)*This poem taken from the Yale Book of American Verse. (1912). Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. (1838–1915)

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  The Wish

  Abraham Cowley

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Wish by Abraham Cowley. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 24, 2013. Abraham Cowley (/'ku?li/) was a leading English poet in the 16th century. (Summary by David Lawrence)

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