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  good dog (NHB Modern Plays)

  Arinzé Kene

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  It's in the window of Sam's, behind the rusty display. Two wheels, shiny body, handlebars ready to be gripped. Mum's promised him that bike, so even when school or homelife bites, he knows to keep his chin up, his head down and his shirt clean. No harsh word, no sudden push to the ground, will distract him from growing up to be a good man.
  Set during the early noughties, good dog is a theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control. Because even the most patient among us can't wait forever.
  Delicately observed and fearlessly told, good dog was first produced by tiata fahodzi in association with Watford Palace Theatre in spring 2017.
  'One of Britain's most exciting young playwrights' Guardian

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  Pillars of Society

  Henrik Ibsen

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  Pillars of Society was Ibsen's first successful realist drama, first performed in 1877. Karsten Bernick is the dominant businessman in a small coastal town in Norway, with interests in shipping and shipbuilding in a long-established family firm. Now he is planning his most ambitious project yet, backing a railway which will connect the town to the main line and open a fertile valley which he has been secretly buying up. Suddenly his past explodes on him with the arrival of Lona Hessel, the woman he once jilted, and Johan Tonnesen, who left town in disgrace fifteen years earlier. - Summary by Wikipedia and Elizabeth KlettKrap: Rob BoardAune: alanmapstoneRorlund: ToddMrs. Rummel: Kathy WrightMrs. Holt: AvailleMrs. Bernick: Beth ThomasDina Dorf: Kristin GjerløwMartha Bernick: DigsHilmar Tonnesen: Algy PugOlaf Bernick: Tricia GMrs. Lynge: LydiaKarsten Bernick: Bruce PirieVigeland: HamletRummel: Larry WilsonSandstad: David OlsonLona Hessel: Elizabeth KlettJohan Tonnesen: mbNarrator: April Waltersaudio edited by Elizabeth Klett

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  Chore Time

  Jean McKishnie Blewett

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  Jean McKishnie Blewett (4 November 1862 – 19 August 1934) was a Canadian journalist, author and poet.Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, she published a booklet titled Heart Stories to benefit war charities. During this time she regularly lectured on topics such as temperance and suffragism. She used the pseudonym Katherine Kent for some of her writing.After her death, fellow female journalist Bride Broder wrote in tribute:"There is a simplicity about Mrs. Blewett's prose and verse that has made a wide appeal, and her gay-hearted attitude to life, the humorous twists she gave to little things, made her very welcome as a speaker at women's gatherings. In all her writings she touched on the things that appeal to women everywhere and, in doing so, won the admiration of men readers also." (Wikipedia)

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  Stories (NHB Modern Plays)

  Nina Raine

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  How do you have a baby when you're thirty-nine and single?
  You decide. But what happens next?
  The story, like a child, has a life of its own. The story becomes stories…
  A funny and touching play about the fertilisation of an idea, Nina Raine's Stories premiered at the National Theatre, London, in October 2018.

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  Nonsense Verse

  Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll

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  Each of us has giggled uncontrollably as a child or adult at some silly nothing, some play on words, some nonsense that, for a moment at least, makes the world seem genuinely funny if a little mad.  In this volume of Nonsense verse you’ll find many favourites to take you back to the time and place where most things are a little upside down or back to front including favourites from Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and quite a few others to giggle along with.

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  After the Dance (The Rattigan...

  Terence Rattigan

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  Rattigan's attack on the moral vacuity of the 'bright young things' of the twenties and thirties, written between French Without Tears and The Deep Blue Sea.
  David is a high-living, hard-drinking, successful writer involved with two women: his wife Joan and an earnest-minded younger woman, Helen. When Joan commits suicide David considers following her but instead returns to a life of parties and drinking.
  This edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.
  'one of the supreme dramatists of the 20th century' - Guardian
  'a harrowing critique of a period of heedless frivolity and a dazzling reminder of the strengths of Rattigan's writing' - Evening Standard
  'a great and wonderful revelation... combines superb social comedy with shafts of powerful emotion' - Telegraph

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