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  Now This Is Not The End (NHB...

  Rose Lewenstein

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  How important is it to keep memories alive and pass down the tales of our ancestors? Six decades after her grandmother fled Germany, Rosie is making Berlin her new home. As she looks to the future, the secrets of her family's past begin to unravel...
  Set in London and Berlin, Rose Lewenstein's poignant play explores the meaning of legacy, identity and our sense of belonging, through the eyes of three generations of women.
  Now This Is Not The End premiered at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2015.

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  The Book of Psalms

  Michael York

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  The Psalms are a unique portion of the Old Testament—150 songs and poems—that cover a wide range of emotions to express the heart and essence of humanity. Written over several centuries by multiple authors, these Psalms illustrate the theology and worship of the Israelites, imparting lessons through the ages. This reading uses the King James Version of the Bible—a translation whose language is praised as some of the greatest poetry ever written—and is enhanced by actor Michael York's performance.

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  The Wind Among the Reeds

  William Butler Yeats

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  William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. One of his works, 'The wind among the reeds', published in 1899, by critics' opinion is the main achievement of his early works. Imagery of Yeats' poetry at this time is filled with characters of Celtic mythology and folklore. (ShiNeko, Wikipedia)

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  Beastly Chronicles of Saki

  H. M. Munro

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  The Beastly Chronicles Of Saki.  The stories of HH Munro – better known by his pen name of Saki – have scarcely been out of print since they were first published nearly a century ago.  Yet it often seems that their particular delights are reserved for the private pleasure of his coterie of admirers.  It has to be admitted that a taste for Saki is something of an addiction.  And, like all addictions, once acquired, it is hard to shake off.  In the years since his tragically early death in the trenches at the hands of a German sniper, fellow addicts have included Graham Greene, Noel Coward and Tom Sharpe. All of us take a slightly wicked satisfaction from his biting wit and the subversive way in which he undermines the staid Edwardian Society he purports to observe.  But to a much greater extent than his near-contemporaries, Wilde and Kipling, there is something dark and menacing at the heart of Saki’s writing.  Behind the refined twinkle of tea cups on an Edwardian lawn can be heard the distant howling of a wolf.  Hidden among the shrubbery in a carefully manicured garden lurk all kinds of Beasts and Superbeasts, ready to wreak Nature’s revenge on an uncaring mankind with its arrogant belief in materialism, progress and the innate respectability of middle class values.  Where Kipling’s menagerie tends to simple analogues of human types, Saki’s animals can rise up with the full power of Pan himself.  This is not to ignore Saki’s ability to turn an aphorism with all the facility and wit of the divine Oscar at his best.  Nor does it forget his ability to prick the inflated egos of louche young men with too much time and money on their hands or deliciously dotty aunts and duchesses with their minds firmly fixed on Empire and Imperial responsibilities.  It would be easy to forget that Munro foresaw the imminent collapse of this society into the cataclysm of the Great War.  With his experience as a political journalist in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, he was probably more aware than most of the storm that was brewing.  But, essentially, he was an observer of his fellow-man.  And it is for the humour of his observations, for the dazzling twists and turns his tales take and for the fact that he makes us laugh inordinately that he is to be treasured and shared with those who have not yet acquired the addiction.

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  Fifty Shades of December - 50 of...

  Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Scawen...

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  Once more the year begins.  The first month of the Gregorian calendar. Cold winds howl, the landscape shivers, frost, snow, ice are the many blankets for the land.  Daylight is thin, it arrives late and leaves early ceding the hours to shadow and the ink of night. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of December - An Introduction 
  2 - Ode Written on The First of December by Robert Southey 
  3 - A Calender Of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  4 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For the Year - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 
  5 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  6 - Before Winter by Edith Nesbit 
  7 - December Matins by Alfred Austin 
  8 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 
  9 - Some Too Fragile For Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  10 - Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  11 - On the Death of Major Whitefoord, December 15th 1825 by Eliza Acton 
  12 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  13 - To the Memory of Mrs Lefroy Who Died December 16th, My Birthday by Jane Austen 
  14 - Sonnet 6 - Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface by William Shakespeare 
  15 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  16 - It is Winter by Daniel Sheehan 
  17 - Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  18 - Gloomily the Clouds Are Sailing by Anne Bronte 
  19 - December by John Bannister Tabb 
  20 - Eden In Winter by Vachal Lindsay 
  21 - To A Lady Who Presented to the Author A Lock of Hair Braided with Her Own and Appointed a Night in December To Meet Him in the Garden by Lord Byron 
  22 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit 
  23 - My Winter Rose by Alfred Austin 
  24 - To Flowers from Italy by Thomas Hardy 
  25 - Sicily. December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke 
  26 - Lachin y Gair by Lord Byron 
  27 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  28 - Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  29 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  30 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
  31 - Winter by Robert Southey 
  32 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke 
  33 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  34 - December the 23rd 1879 by George MacDonald 
  35 - A Christmas Carol by Samual Taylor Coleridge 
  36 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  37 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  38 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  39 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  40 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
  41 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  42 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland 
  43 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
  44 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  45 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  46 - The Farm Woman's Winter by Thomas Hardy 
  47 - December the 27th 1879 by George MacDonald 
  48 - A New Years Eve in Wartime by Thomas Hardy 
  49 - At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy 
  50 - Ring Out Wild Bells.  Christmas Poem by Alfred lord Tennyson 
  51 - Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns

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  The Prisoner (NHB Modern Plays)

  Brook Peter, Marie-Hélène Estienne

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  Somewhere in the world, a man sits alone outside a prison. Who is he, and why is he there? Is it a choice, or a punishment?
  With The Prisoner, the internationally renowned theatre director Peter Brook and his long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne ask provocative and profound questions about justice, guilt, redemption – and what it means to be free.
  The Prisoner opened at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, in March 2018, before an international tour which included performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, the National Theatre of Great Britain, and Theatre for a New Audience in New York.
  'The most pioneering theatre director of the twentieth century' Independent on Peter Brook
  'Only its mystery equals the simplicity of this strange fable' - Le Monde
  'The force of the show lies precisely in its ellipses, the empty spaces it offers to our emotions, sensations and to our intelligence' - Télérama
  'During one hour and fifteen minutes, the Earth stops spinning at its maddening speed, to allow Brook to whisper in our ear one of his beautiful universal stories' - Les Echoes
  'The work of an artist for whom the human heart has no secrets and who knows the revealing and consoling force of theatre' - Le Figaroscope

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