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  Vernon God Little (stage...

  DBC Pierre

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  A darkly riotous, superbly fast-talking adventure, adapted from the Booker Prize-winning novel.
  Vernon Little is fifteen years old and lives with his mother in Martirio, a flea-bitten Texan town. His best friend just massacred sixteen of their classmates before killing himself. The town wants vengeance and turns its sights on Vernon, who is arrested at the start of the story.
  Tanya Ronder's stage adaptation of DBC Pierre's Booker Prizewinning novel was first performed at the Young Vic, London, in 2007, when it was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Play. Rufus Norris's production was revived in 2011, in this revised version, as the centrepiece of the Young Vic's celebratory fortieth anniversary season.
  'Tanya Ronder's clever, fluent, and highly enjoyable theatrical adaptation' - Independent
  'exuberant, inventive, edgy, excitable, original' - Mail on Sunday

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  The Ages of Man

  William Shakespeare

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  Ages of Man is a one-man play performed by John Gielgud of a collection of speeches from Shakespeare's plays. The speeches show the journey of life from birth to death. Gielgud gave the first experimental performance of Ages of Man in a house in St. James Square in London. It premiered at the Freemason's Hall at the 1957 Edinburgh Festival to a sold-out house and an overwhelming success. He then went on to perform the recital for the next ten years all over the world, winning Gielgud a special Tony Award for "for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare".

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  How to Spot an Alien (NHB Modern...

  Georgia Christou

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  Contains: one confused alien, two brave kids and a busted spaceship.
  What do you do if you think your aunt is an alien? Twelve-year-old Jelly and her brother, Jonjo, have their suspicions. She won't let them leave the house. Or ask questions. And she definitely won't let them in the attic.
  Join Jelly and Jonjo on their quest to discover the truth in a rip-roaring adventure through space, full of friendship, fun and flying saucers.
  Georgia Christou's play How To Spot An Alien is ideal for space cadets age five and up to watch, read and perform. It was first produced in 2018 by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, in a co-production with Theatr Clwyd.

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  The Poetry of Wilfred Owen

  Wilfred Owen

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  Widely regarded as one of the leading war poets, Owen's work is powerful and shocking, illustrating the true horror faced by soldiers during the First World War.

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  Japanese Poetry

  Various Various

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  The classical poetry of Japan focuses on direct experience of fleeting moments, in total contrast with its Occidental counterpart. These seminal poems were passed down orally, before great collections assembled works of art spanning several centuries in written form as early as the 8th century, from the Kojiki to the Kokinshu. Later, a number of female writers rose to prominence (Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon); then in the 17th century, the haiku form became extremely popular, in large part due to the work of Matsuo Basho, a prolific writer and traveler.Discover a selection of the most important poems of classical Japan, beautifully translated, as an immortal evanescence.

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  This House - Poems

  Rehema Njambi

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  Rehema Njambi unpacks identity, faith, womanhood and – above all – agency, in poems partly inspired by conversations with the Black, mostly African, women around her.
  
  Imbued with quiet resistance to patriarchal societies, Njambi's debut collection is an ode to the women who have raised her, and their strength and their ability to hold, sustain, and be rooted in their faith. The poems resound with their idea of home, and belonging they wish to pass on to their daughters.
  GHOSTS IN THIS HOUSE
  There were footsteps in the dark all night,
  
  almost every night, and we were scared —
  
  but we didn't say a thing.
  She called us to prayer in the morning, every morning.
  
  With our small hands and smaller faith
  we asked the Lord for protection —
  
  but He didn't say a thing.

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