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  Delirium (NHB Modern Plays)

  Enda Walsh

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  Hilarious, brutal and tragic, Delirium is a radical re-interpretation of The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's classic and compelling tale of family rivalries. The play is the result of a collaboration between acclaimed company theatre O and award-winning playwright Enda Walsh.
  The Karamazovs are a train wreck waiting to happen. A hated father and his sons battle it out over women, money and God. They don't so much live as burn up. Behind them lurks a servant, taking note of it all; and to the side, two beautiful women, clinging onto impossible loves.
  This volume includes illustrations by Paddy Molloy.
  'a heady brew of lush phrasemaking, puppetry, rock music and whirling physicality that distils Dostoevsky's battle of good and evil into a couple of hours of demented theatrics. Not everyone's cup of tea, to be sure, but it catches how life can be petty, grubby and profound - often all the same time' - Telegraph
  'unmissable... as brave, as searingly true and as epic as the original' - Sunday Independent, Ireland

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  Rover The (Part One)

  Aphra Behn

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  The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers, is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. The first part features multiple plot lines, dealing with the amorous adventures of a group of Englishmen in Naples at Carnival time. The "rover" of the play's title is Willmore, a rakish naval captain, who falls in love with a young woman named Hellena, who has set out to experience love before her brother sends her to a convent. Complications arise when Angellica Bianca, a famous courtesan, falls in love with Willmore and swears revenge on him for his betrayal. Meanwhile, Hellena's sister Florinda attempts to marry her true love, Colonel Belvile, rather than the man her brother has selected. The third major plot of the play deals with the provincial Blunt, who becomes convinced that a girl has fallen in love with him but is humiliated when she turns out to be a prostitute and a thief. (Summary by Wikipedia)CastFlorinda: Amanda FridayHellena: Elizabeth KlettDon Pedro: Alan MapstoneCallis/Boy: Patti CunninghamStephano: Ric FFrederick: balaBelvile: mbBlunt: Algy PugWillmore: Robin KingValeria/Woman: AvailleLucetta/Masquerader/Hellena's Page: ElleyKatSancho/Officer/Blunt's Man: engineerdstAngellica Bianca: Arielle LipshawMoretta: Charlotte DuckettSebastian/Bravo/Philippo/Soldier: Elizabeth KlettDon Antonio: Ernst PattynamaDiego/Servant: Anna SimonNarrator/Prologue/Epilogue: Libby GohnAudio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

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  Pop Music (NHB Modern Plays)

  Anna Jordan

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  A play for anyone that's ever been a dick on the dance floor.
  A wedding. A free bar. A blast from the past.
  G and Kayla's lives are a mess but tonight they're determined to Have It Large. As their veins course with adrenaline and cheap prosecco, we follow them on an epic journey through thirty years of Pop.
  Can the DJ save them as they become Dancing Queens, reliving their Teenage Dream, Staying Out For The Summer and Spicing Up Their Lives? Pop makes promises it can't keep, and soon they'll discover they have more in common than their taste in tunes.
  Anna Jordan's play Pop Music is an emotionally contagious rollercoaster. It was premiered at Latitude Festival in July 2018 before a run at Birmingham Repertory Theatre and touring the West Midlands.

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  In the Old Church Tower

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In the Old Church Tower by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 14, 2012."Very lovely poem." - Caprisha Page"This seems like a nice nostalgic poem of a small town landmark." - Leonard Wilson

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  The Poetry of Alan Seeger -...

  Alan Seeger

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  Alan Seeger was born on 22nd June 1888 in New York.  When he was one the family moved to Staten Island and nine years later onwards to Mexico for two years.   
   
  After attending several elite preparatory schools he enrolled at Harvard in 1906, where he also edited and wrote for the Harvard Monthly. 
   
  He graduated in 1910 and went to live the life of a bohemian in New York’s Greenwich Village, and thereafter moved to Paris to continue his poetry writing in the Latin quarter.  
   
  War’s looming dark shadow was to have a transformative effect on the young poet and on 24th August 24th 1914 he joined the French Foreign Legion so he could fight for the Allies. 
   
  On American Independence day, 4th July 1917 whilst urging on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge at Belloy-en-Santerre he was hit several times by machine gun fire and died. 
   
  His poetry was published posthumously later that year, it although not a great success his poem ‘I Have a Rendezvous with Death . . .’ is now regarded as a classic. 
   
  On the sixth anniversary of his death a memorial to the American volunteers was unveiled in the Place des Etats-Unis.   
   
  The memorial was created by Jean Boucher who had used a photograph of Seeger as his inspiration.   
   
  Also inscribed upon it are Seeger’s moving words: “They did not pursue worldly rewards; they wanted nothing more than to live without regret, brothers pledged to the honour implicit in living one's own life and dying one's own death. Hail, brothers! Goodbye to you, the exalted dead! To you, we owe two debts of gratitude forever: the glory of having died for France, and the homage due to you in our memories.” 
  1 - The Poetry of Alan Seeger - An Introduction 
  2 - I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger 
  3 - Resurgam by Alan Seeger 
  4 - The Hosts by Alan Seeger 
  5 - Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France by Alan Seeger 
  6 - Maktoob by Alan Seeger 
  7 - On a Theme in the Greek Anthology by Alan Seeger 
  8 - Sonnet I by Alan Seeger 
  9 - Sonnet 3 by Alan Seeger 
  10 - Sonnet 5 by Alan Seeger 
  11 - Sonnet 6 by Alan Seeger 
  12 - Sonnet 8 by Alan Seeger 
  13 - Sonnet 10 by Alan Seeger 
  14 - Sonnet 11 by Alan Seeger 
  15 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
  16 - Sonnet 14 by Alan Seeger 
  17 - With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College by Alan Seeger 
  18 - Juvenilia, An Ode to Natural Beauty by Alan Seeger 
  19 - Tezcotzinco by Alan Seeger 
  20 - On The Cliffs Newport by Alan Seeger 
  21 - Do You Remember by Alan Seeger 
  22 - All Thats Not Love by Alan Seeger 
  23 - I Loved.... by Alan Seeger 
  24 - Fragments by Alan Seeger 
  25 - The Need To Love by Alan Seeger 
  26 - Champagne 1914-1915 by Alan Seeger 
  27 - Paris by Alan Seeger 
  28 - Introduction and Conclusion of a Long Poem by Alan Seeger

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  Poetry Please - The National...

  Various Poets

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  BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.  
  The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever. This selection of fifty poems includes works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, Rupert Brooke, Lord Byron, G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Keats, Edward Lear, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, William Wordsworth, and W.B. Yeats.

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