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  Croak

  Anonimo

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  Croak  is a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mashup of mid-century cartoons, all set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J. with Aristophanes, and biblical plagues with caged canaries in a vaudevillian play of time, culture, gender and narrative. Combining vivisection and classical literature, empirical observation and philosophical speculations, Sampirisi's grotesque characters splash and sparkle before moving toward their inevitable narrative end.
    
     
    
    
     
    In conversation with Samuel Beckett's  Words & Music ,  Croak  presents a negotiation between the doom and gloom of a species in crisis and the many empirical markers we attach to such creatures. Sampirisi reminds us that we are all porous in the mud of language.

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  Toshiden: Exploring Japanese...

  Anonimo

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  Think you know urban legends? Think again. 
  Perhaps you’ve heard of Kuchisake-onna, the slit-mouthed woman who cuts your mouth from ear to ear? 
  How about Sugisawa, the cursed village that damns all who stumble upon it? 
  Did you know that people lurk in the suicide forest waiting to claim victims of their own? 
  Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends features over 60 of the most terrifying legends to come out of Japan, all painstakingly researched and—for many—translated into English for the first time. From supernatural creatures to medical mishaps, horrific crimes to chilling secrets of the entertainment industry, nobody does horror quite like Japan. 
  Click the BUY NOW button to discover the hidden secrets behind these legends. After all, the truth is often stranger than fiction.

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  Leave Taking

  Winsome Pinnock

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  'What doctor know about our illness? Just give you pills to sick you stomach and a doctor certificate. What they know about a black woman soul?'
  In North London, Del and Viv are soul-sick. Del doesn't want to be at home; staying out late – 3 p.m.-the-next-day late – is more her thing. Viv scours her schoolbooks trying to find a trace of herself between their lines.
  When Enid takes her daughters to the local obeah woman for some traditional Caribbean soul-healing, secrets are spilled. There's no turning back for Del, Viv and Enid as they negotiate the frictions between their countries and cultures.
  Two generations. Three incredible women. Winsome Pinnock's play Leave Taking is an epic story of what we leave behind in order to find home. It premiered in 1987, and was revived at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2018, in a production directed by the Bush's Artistic Director, Madani Younis.
  Winsome Pinnock has written numerous plays, including Talking in Tongues, for which she won the George Devine and Pearson Best New Play Awards.
  'The godmother of Black British playwrights' Guardian

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  Stormbound

  Irtika Kazi

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  n her first poetry chapbook, the poet talks about her growth as a writer, how she was encouraged, amidst uncertainty and fear, by time spent in different landscapes and by exposure to evolution, to the wide array of events that took place in congruence with art and writing. The poems in this chapbook are interwoven with diverse themes ranging from emotions to social concerns and slivers of mythology.

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  George Bernard Shaw: CANDIDA

  George Bernard Shaw

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  Morell is a Christian Socialist, popular in the Church of England, but Candida is responsible for much of his success. Candida returns home briefly from a trip to London with Eugene Marchbanks, a young poet who wants to rescue her from what he presumes to be her dull family life. Marchbanks is in love with Candida and believes she deserves something more than just complacency from her husband. He considers her divine, and his love eternal. In his view, it is quite improper and humiliating for Candida to have to attend to petty household chores. Morell believes Candida needs his care and protection, but the truth is quite the contrary. Ultimately, Candida must choose between the two gentlemen. She reasserts her preference for the "weaker of the two" who, after a momentary uncertainty, turns out to be her husband Morell. Note that the pronunciation of Candida is how Shaw himself preferred it be pronounced.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Michael Drayton, Alfred Lord...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - War - An Introduction 
  2 - The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton 
  3 - The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  4 - The Battle of Lexington by Sidney Lanier 
  5 - The Bravest Battle by Joaquin Miller 
  6 - The Storm by John Donne 
  7 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau 
  8 - There Was a Crimson Clash of War by Stephen Crane 
  9 - Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg 
  10 - Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen 
  11 - War Sonnet V - The Soldier by Rupert Brooke 
  12 - The Dying Patriot by James Elroy Flecker 
  13 - For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon

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