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  The Rivalry

  Norman Corwin

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  Academy Award-nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the history-making Lincoln-Douglas debates. This fierce rivalry between rising legislator Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas tackled some of the day's most passionate and controversial issues - above all those of slavery and the American concept of freedom. As seen through the eyes of Douglas' young wife Adele, the play illuminates two of the most charismatic politicians of any era. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Paul Giamatti as Stephen A. DouglasDavid Strathairn as Abraham LincolnLily Rabe as Adele DouglasJames Gleason as Rep. Committeeman and ReporterDirected by Eric Simonson. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  Nora

  Henrik Ibsen, Ingmar Bergman

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  "The late master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman streamlined Ibsen’s A Doll’s House to expose the contemporary heart of the 19th century masterpiece. Taut with suspense, this critically-acclaimed adaptation focuses on Nora, a young wife and mother who exploits her childlike charm to survive in a man’s world. But Nora has a secret that threatens her cozy existence, and she begins a perilous journey to find her way out. Recorded before a live audience at the Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica, CA, in 1997.Adapted by Ingmar BergmanTranslated by Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone MarkerDirector: Steve AlbrezziProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergDavid Dukes as Torvald HelmerRobert Foxworth as Dr. RankNatalija Nogulich as Mrs. LindeLinda Purl as NoraJohn Vickery as Nils KrogstadRadio production and music arrangements by Raymond GuarnaFoley Artist: Amy Strong"

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  Sunset Song (NHB Modern Plays) -...

  Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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  A classic of Scots literature, brilliantly adapted for the stage.
  Sunset Song is the first novel in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy, a rich evocation of growing up on a farm in Scotland in the early-20th century, of being in love and in lust, of getting by as a young mother on your own and of losing your lover in war.
  The distinguishing feature of the books - and of this dramatisation - is the use of the rhythms and vocabulary of Scots to tell the story.
  This stage version of Sunset Song by Alastair Cording was first performed at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, in 1991.
  'Succeeds marvellously... puts Scotland's own history onto the stage with vigour, precision and skill... a pure piece of theatre' - Guardian
  'Does full justice to Grassic Gibbon... a joy and a wrench to watch its blithe unfolding of tragedy and hope' - Scotland on Sunday

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  Night Became Years

  Jason Stefanik

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  Night Became Years is poetry in the sauntering tradition of the flâneur. Stefanik loafers his way over sacred geography and explores his own mixed heritage through the lexicon of Elizabethan canting language. Comparing the terminology of fifteenth-­century English beggar vernacular with a contemporary Canadian inner­-city worldview, the poems in Night Became Years unfold as separate entities while at the same time forming a larger narrative on the possibilities of poetry today and the nature of mixed­-blood identity.

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  Paradise Lost

  John Milton

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  Paradise Lost is an epic poem written by the Puritan English poet John Milton between 1658 and 1663, and published in 1667. This is a period of English history which encompasses the end of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth and the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.Perhaps reflecting some of his country's turmoil during Milton's life, Paradise Lost deals with revolution in Heaven by Satan and his followers against God, their defeat and banishment to Hell, and their subsequent plotting of revenge, leading ultimately to Satan beguiling Eve in Paradise to taste the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge against the explicit command of God. Milton's vivid and poetic description of these events is both dramatic and compelling. The work gained swift acceptance and has always remained a popular and important part of English literature.Originally published in ten books, a second edition was published in 1674 arranged into twelve books, the form in which it appears here.

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  Shakespeare Monologues...

  William Shakespeare

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  This is the 12th edition of the Shakespeare Monologues Collection, in which librivox volunteers bring you their favourite characters' monologues. All topics and emotions are covered, from love to hate, comedies and tragedies, world-famous and lesser known lines.  - Summary by Carolin

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