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  The Tinker's Wedding - A...

  J. M. Synge

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  Come join me in the hilarious romp that is The Tinker's Wedding by J.M. Synge, a story of two young tinkers trying to con a travelling holy man into marrying them, all while their mother is constantly trying to satiate her indomitable thirst for drink, thereby inadvertently causing more problems than the drink is worth. Blaming, miscommunication, and utter tomfoolery ensues, leading to the final culmination of each party getting ready to pounce on each other's necks and outrageously strangle each other Saturday-morning-cartoon style. Come witness both sincerity and hilarity being wrapped up in this tight but brilliantly crafted two act drama-comedy.

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  My Name is Rachel Corrie (NHB...

  Rachel Corrie

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  The moving account of the life and early death of a young female activist, adapted from her own writings.
  Best New Play, 2006 Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards
  Why did a 23-year old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between an Israeli army bulldozer and a Palestinian home in the Gaza strip? Compiled from her letters, diaries and emails by Alan Rickman and Guardian journalist Katharine Viner, My Name is Rachel Corrie recounts her short life and sudden death in her own words.
  'Funny, passionate, bristling with idealism and luminously intelligent, Corrie emerges as a bona fide hero for this brutalised world of ours' - Time Out
  'A deeply moving personal testimony... Theatre can't change the world. But what it can do, when it's as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people's passionate concern' - Guardian
  'Deeply moving' - Independent
  'Extraordinary power' - Time Out

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  The Poetry of Aphra Behn

  Aphra Behn

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  Aphra Behn was a prolific and well-established poet and playwright but facts about her life remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said is that Aphra Behn is regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre.  Her poetry is now far more appreciated and seen as a breakthrough for women of the 17th Century and beyond.  
   
  Aphra was baptised on 14th December 1640 and grew up with the gathering tensions leading to the English Civil War, a time of much division and difficulty as the King, Parliament, and their respective forces, came closer and then finally into open conflict. 
   
  By 1664 her marriage was over, less than a year after it began. She now used Mrs Behn as her professional name and moved towards pursuing a more sustainable and substantial career, working for the King's Company and the Duke's Company players as a scribe. Her first play ‘The Forc’d Marriage’, was staged in 1670, and thereafter many followed, including her later comic works, which were more commercially successful.  She wrote 19 plays in all and contributed to many others as well as several works of prose. 
   
  Along with her literary career there are claims she was a spy, that she travelled abroad, possibly as far as Surinam.  She also claimed to have met a slave leader in Africa and based her story ‘Oroonoko’ on his life.  Other accounts suggest that during her life she was also known as Ann Behn, Agent One-Sixty and Astrea. Her financial troubles seem to have also incurred her a brief stay in a debtors' prison. Whatever the truth, both her life and work seem rich, textured and full of adventure. 
   
  From the mid 1680’s Aphra’s health began to decline.  This was exacerbated by her continual state of debt and descent into poverty although she was often fond of saying that she had led a ‘life dedicated to pleasure and poetry.’ 
    
  Aphra Behn died on 16th April 1689. She is buried in the East Cloister of Westminster Abbey and the inscription on her tombstone reads: "Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality."  
  1 - The Poetry of Aphra Behn - An Introduction 
  2 - The Disappointment by Aphra Behn 
  3 - On a Juniper Tree, Cut Down to Make Busks by Aphra Behn 
  4 - The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn 
  5 - To Lysander by Aphra Behn 
  6 - Love Armed by Aphra Behn 
  7 - On Desire by Aphra Behn 
  8 - The Counsel by Aphra Behn 
  9 - Love's Witness by Aphra Behn 
  10 - The Invitation by Aphra Behn 
  11 - To Mrs B by Aphra Behn 
  12 - On Her Loving Two Equally by Aphra Behn 
  13 - The Dream by Aphra Behn 
  14 - Song by Aphra Behn 
  15 - A Ballad on Mr J H to Amoret, Asking Why I Was So Sad by Aphra Behn 
  16 - The Return by Aphra Behn 
  17 - Oh How the Hand the Lover Ought to Prize by Aphra Behn 
  18 - The Dog in the Manger by Aphra Behn 
  19 - Angellica's Lament by Aphra Behn 
  20 - A Congratulatory Poem by Aphra Behn 
  21 - A Letter to a Brother of the Pen in Tribulation by Aphra Behn 
  22 - Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child, the Last of Seven That Died Before by Aphra Behn 
  23 - A Thousand Martyrs aka The Libertine by Aphra Behn 
  24 - On the Death of the Late Earl of Rochester by Aphra Behn

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  Please make me pretty I don't...

  Tawanda Mulalu

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  The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor.The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in White America, his time working as a teacher's assistant in a third-grade classroom, and his ambivalent admiration for canonical poets who have influenced him, especially Sylvia Plath. Juxtaposing traditional forms such as sonnets and elegies with less orthodox interjections, such as prose-poem "prayers" and other meditations, the collection presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring—one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image: "The stars also suffer. Immense and dead, their gasses burn / distant like castanets of antebellum teeth. My open window / a synecdoche of country."

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  Multilingual Short Works...

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.01 - Danish - I skovens dybe, stille ro by Fritz Andersen key words: poetry02 - Esperanto - Limerick by G. D. Lewis key words: poetry, limerick03 - French - Lettre by Paul Verlaine key words: poetry04 - French - Il pleure dans mon coeur by Paul Verlaine key words: poetry05 - French - A Clymène by Paul Verlaine key words: poetry06 - German - Es weint mein armes Herz by Paul Verlaine key words: poetry, melancholy, translated by Wolf von Kalckreuth07 - Italian - La caduta by Giuseppe Parini key words: La caduta, poetry 08 - Italian - X Agosto by Giovanni Pascoli key words: It has been written in memory of Pascoli's father Ruggero, murdered under mysterious circumstances on the night of St. Lorenzo.09 - Italian - La Pentecoste by Alessandro Manzoni key words: It is one of the sacred lyrics, Mazoni composed after his religious conversion10 - Italian - In morte del fratello Giovanni by Ugo Foscolo key words: Sonnet composed in memory of Foscolo's dead brother Giovanni11 - Luxembourgish - D’feer Joerszéiten by Michel Lentz key words: romantic poetry, nature, love. This poem is about love being compared to the four seasons.12 - Norwegian - Reven Som Gjeter by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen key words: prose, fiction, fairy tale13 - Portuguese - Doçura e bondade by Guerra Junqueiro key words: A tale that helps children reflect about the Good and wrong14 - Portuguese - O ouro by Guerra Junqueiro key words: A tale that helps children reflect about the value of things15 - Romanian - Cu penetul ca sideful by Mihai Eminescu key words: poetry16 - Romanian - Colinde, Colinde by Mihai Eminescu key words: poetry17 - Romanian - Glossa by Mihai Eminescu key words: poetry18 - Romanian - Manusa (Der Handschuh) by Friedrich Schiller key words: poetry19 - Russian - ??????? ??????? by Anton Chekhov key words: a sarcastic short story20 - Spanish - El buen hombre y su hijo (de El Conde Lucanor) by Don Juan Manuel key words: prose, fiction, didactic tale

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  The Gathered Leaves (NHB Modern...

  Andrew Keatley

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  A moving, poignant and funny family drama that sees the weight of family history, of reputation, and of expectation, all descend on one family over Easter weekend in 1997.
  For more than seventeen years, the Pennington family has never been together in the same room. But now, on the eve of William's seventy-fifth birthday, all three generations have gathered with the intention of putting the past behind them. If only it were that simple...
  And time is running out. Especially for William, as the world he has always known begins to crumble around him.
  The Gathered Leaves premiered at Park Theatre, London, in July 2015.

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