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  The Imaginary Invalid

  Molière Molière, John Wood...

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  France's master comic playwright has a field day with the subjects of hypochondria and our blind obedience to doctors. Molière’s witty attack on the medical profession has more than a little resonance today. Translated by John Wood, adapted by Beth Milles.
   
  
   
  Recorded before a live audience at the Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica in December 1997.
   
  
   
  Directed by Beth Milles
   
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
   
  
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
   
  
   
  The Actor’s Gang Theatre Company:
   
  Molly Bryant as Toinette
   
  Tom Fitzpatrick as Diaforirus
   
  Laurence O’Keefe as Cleante
   
  Dan Parker as Argan
   
  Evie Peck as Louison
   
  Dina Platias as Angelique
   
  Stephen M. Porter as Thomas
   
  Michael Rivkin as Purgon
   
  Dean Robinson as Beralde
   
  Patti Tippo as Berline
   
  Chris Wells as Fleurant
   
  
   
  Technical Director: Raymond Guarna
   
  Foley Artist and Stage Manager: John Lovick
   
  Associate Producer: Susan Raab Simonson
   
  Original Music by Laurence O’Keefe

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  Mingle

  Caleb Parkin

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  Caleb Parkin's dark and mischievous second poetry collection Mingle stirs up the toxicities between landscapes, ecosystems and bodies, in poems bubbling over with hyper-wealth and haunted by tarnished ideals. Through creatures, compounds and chemicals, the poems probe what makes up our world's matter, and how we use it for good or ill. From gold to hydrocarbons, radioactive gardening to viral memes, the resulting mixture is a potent poetic cocktail…
  Here, intimate connections and grand narratives are unsettled; we are implicated in prickly histories and weird futures and the natural world reminds us of its unruliness – as well as our own. Reflections warp in noxious ponds and voices distort and echo in uncanny landscapes. At times hyperreal and surreal, adventurous and technicolour, Mingle fizzes with the possibilities of queered language and altered states of poetic form.

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  The Choephori

  Aeschylus

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  Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori is the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's death by killing Clytemnestra. It is not until the third and final play, Eumenides, that peace is restored to the family of the Atreidae. The introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean 'Orestes' tradition in literature and art, as well as the place of Choephori within the Oresteia, its imagery and dramatic structure, the questions of staging the play, and the manuscript tradition.

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  Stumblings

  Keith Ravenscroft

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  ‘Better to have questions you can’t answer than answers you can’t question.’
   
  The author describes these poems as ‘stumblings’ because they are stumbling attempts to understand what can seem beyond understanding. In his writing he confronts the issues that are inescapably a part of being human, as he sees them playing out in the maelstrom of his own life. He takes us into areas of desperation, confusion, even despair, but also of acceptance, fulfilment, ecstasy, obstinate faith, and above all of tender love.
   
  The poems range widely through philosophical musings, urgent questioning about what it is to be human, irony, self-mockery, overwhelming passion – and always with an intensity that acknowledges that everything matters, everything has meaning if only we could decode it. And throughout this volume the writer attempts to comprehend and reach the elusive God who 
  he believes in but fails so comprehensively to connect with as deeply as he longs to. 
   
  Any readers who are prepared to stumble with the writer on this poetic journey through life may find themselves in a place where they can at least begin to understand, accept, and even glory in their imperfect humanity as the writer does. And maybe hope to stumble into Grace, 
  enlightened and affirmed.

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  Potong: To Care Cut

  Johnny Jon Jon

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  In Johnny Jon Jon’s plays, seemingly ordinary events are turned into hauntingly profound exchanges when the individual’s sense of self comes under scrutiny. 
   
  In Hawa, a new Muslim convert finds herself tasked with overseeing the funeral arrangements of her partner. 
   
  In Potong, a son is sent away by a mother to return to Singapore to undergo the coming-of-age rites of passage that await him: circumcision and conscription. 
   
  Deftly alternating between beats of humour and tension, Jon Jon reveals how these characters contend with the paradigms, manifest or otherwise, that shape their existence.

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  Charles Dickens - Chapter &...

  Charles Dickens

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  Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. 
   
  An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure. 
   
  In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem.  In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything.  But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle.  Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another. 
   
  Story. Poems. Story.  Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters.  And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.    
   
  1 - Chapter & Verse - Charles Dickens - An Introduction 
  2 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens 
  3 - The Ivy Green by Charles Dickens 
  4 - The Song of the Wreck by Charles Dickens 
  5 - The Hymn of the Wiltshire Laborers by Charles Dickens 
  6 - A Child's Hymn by Charles Dickens 
  7 - Lucy's Song by Charles Dickens 
  8 - Little Nell's Funeral by Charles Dickens 
  9 - Gabriel Grub's Song by Charles Dickens 
  10 - George Edmund's Song by Charles Dickens 
  11 - Squire Norton's Song by Charles Dickens 
  12 - A Fine Old English Gentleman by Charles Dickens 
  13 - The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens

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