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  Jefferson's Garden

  Timberlake Wertenbaker

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  You say you want a Revolution? The story of this country’s struggle for independence is told with a fresh slant and theatrical inventiveness. As Thomas Jefferson struggles to find the right words to frame a nation, a young Quaker must weigh his desire to participate in the struggle against his pacifist beliefs.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring:Rosalind Ayres as Martha/Nelly RoseNate Corddry as ChristianEllis Greer as BettyGregory Harrison as Carl/Thomas JeffersonLovensky Jean-Baptiste as James HemmingsIfan Meredith as Harry/Jim MadisonDarren Richardson as Daniel/George Mason/M. PerraultEmily Swallow as Louisa/ImogenInger Tudor as Susannah/SallyAdditional chorus roles performed by the castDirected by Martin Jarvis. Recorded live in performance at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in March 2017.Sound Effects Artist, Jonathan Kells Phillips. Production Manager, Katie Friesen. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Associate Producer, Anna Lyse Erikson. Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.

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  Barrymore - A Radio Play

  William Luce

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  John Barrymore was the black sheep of America's most illustrious acting family. Celebrated for his charisma and matinee idol looks, he was for awhile America's most popular actor. Famous for his stage roles in Richard III and Hamlet, he also made more than fifty films. But alcoholism soon dissipated his talents, and he became known more for his Falstaffian behavior and outrageous high jinx than for his art. In Barrymore, William Luce has adapted his acclaimed Broadway hit especially for audio in this stunning production.

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  Mary Stuart

  Friedrich Schiller

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  Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her potential claim on the English throne. The action of the play revolves around an attempt to rescue Mary from prison and Elizabeth's indecision over whether or not to have her executed. The 1801 translation is by Joseph Mellish, a friend of Schiller's. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast:Queen Elizabeth: Elizabeth KlettMary Stuart: Arielle LipshawEarl of Leicester: David GoldfarbEarl of Shrewsbury: Bruce PirieLord Burleigh: Andy MinterEarl of Kent: Mark F. SmithSir William Davison / Officer / Melvil: Algy PugSir Amias Paulet: Martin GeesonSir Edward Mortimer: mbCount L'Aubespine: om123O'Kelly / Burgoyne: Dale BurgessCount Bellievre: Matthew ReeceHannah Kennedy: AvailleMargaret Curl: lavahnaPage: PhilippaFirst Woman: Lucy PerryNarrator: Roseanne SchmidtAudio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

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  Before You Say Anything (NHB...

  Theatre Malaprop, Carys D. Coburn

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  Imagine no one loves you and you have to leave home with nothing. Where would you go? Would you feel free? Are you free at all if your 'choices' hurt?
  A play that questions how everyone can be safe at the same time, Before You Say Anything is a time-travelling set of interweaving stories exploring injustice, freedom, and bravery.
  Created by Carys D. Coburn with MALAPROP Theatre, it was first staged at the 2020 Dublin Fringe Festival.
  MALAPROP Theatre is an award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers, who seek to challenge, delight and speak to the world we live in (even when imagining different ones).
  'Subtle, timely and beautifully paced… riveting' - Irish Times
  'Reminiscent of early Carly Churchill… This is thinking theatre at its best' - Irish Independent

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  CripTales - Six Monologues

  Mat Fraser

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  From the liberation of the electric wheelchair to the ignominy of discrimination and incarceration, there have been both great advances and terrible setbacks for disabled people in Britain over the last fifty years.
  Hard-hitting and hilarious, personal and poignant, CripTales comprises six fictional monologues portraying some very real experiences. From negotiating friendships and personal assistants, navigating the benefits system, and experiencing sexual fulfilment, they challenge the view that having a disability is a problem or 'not normal'. Normal doesn't exist!
  CripTales was commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Four and BBC America in 2020 to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the UK's Disability Discrimination Act, which criminalised discrimination against disabled people in many areas of life. The production had disabled people at its core – as writers, directors and actors of all six monologues.
  Mat Fraser, the series' Creative Director, said, 'Disabled voices have been shut out of mainstream TV drama for too long and this is a chance to showcase some of the wonderful, inventive, funny, dramatic, sexy and sobering potential available… We called the series CripTales, as the word 'crip' has been taken by the disabled community as a self-empowering title since the late '80s, and these are authentic stories and tales from people who identify as Deaf and Disabled people and who are embedded in disabled community.'
  This volume comprises:
  Thunderbox by Genevieve Barr
  Audition by Mat Fraser
  Paper Knickers by Jackie Hagan
  The Shed by Matilda Ibini
  Hamish by Jack Thorne
  The Real Deal by Tom Wentworth

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  The Inner Sky - Poems Notes Dreams

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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  Selected work from the modernist poet thematically centered on our relation to the physical world and our minds, featuring original texts and translations.The Inner Sky is a selection of poems and prose by the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, set with the original text and a translation, and including more than a dozen works that have never before appeared in English. The translations, by the NEA and PEN Award–winning author and translator Damion Searls, are lively, moving, and appealing, and they give a new voice for Rilke in English: mystical but concrete, like Emily Dickinson or Gerard Manley Hopkins. Searls’s selection of texts clusters around a handful of related images and ideas—birds and trees, giving and receiving, working and waiting, girlhood and gardens—and presents a coherent vision of how we relate to the outer world and inner world of the imagination. Scholars and students of Rilke will benefit from the German and French originals opposite the translations, and two full indices of English and original titles and first lines. An annotated chronology and the translator’s afterword complete this rich new volume, a necessary addition to even the most complete Rilke library, and the perfect introduction for those just getting to know this perennial master.“No matter their level of familiarity with Rilke, The Inner Sky belongs on the bookshelf of any literature lover, thanks largely to Searls’ deft translation and grouping of Rilke’s work.” —Rachel Mennies, ForeWord Magazine“A must-read for Rilke fans, The Inner Sky will deepen the English-speaking world’s perception of the man behind the well-wrought verses.” —Stephan Delbos, The Prague Post

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