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  Six Characters in Search of an...

  Luigi Pirandello

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  Pirandello's classic play updated for the twenty-first century.
  Blurring the border between fiction and life, between the stage and the world outside, Six Characters in Search of an Author exploded onto the stage in 1921 as one of the unique achievements of twentieth-century drama.
  Updated and recontextualised in this vertiginous new version, it becomes a dark parable for a media-obsessed age and an exhilarating exploration of how we define art, ourselves and 'reality' in the twenty-first century.
  'exhilarating... stunning' - The Times
  'madly ingenious... gives a remarkable new lease of life to Pirandello's seminal play' - Independent
  'brilliantly inventive... gets to the heart of Pirandello's meaning while making the old play seem fresh to a modern audience' - Daily Telegraph

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  Woyzeck - Full Text and...

  Georg Büchner

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  The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
  
  Woyzeck is one of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre. A modern classic that remains frighteningly relevant today.
  
  Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a provincial German town, is bullied by his superiors and starved by the regiment's doctor in the name of scientific experiment. His only pleasures in life are his lover Marie and their innocent young son. But when Woyzeck learns that Marie has been unfaithful with the regiment's handsome Drum Major, he murders his lover in a fit of rage and hopelessness.
  
  Based on a real-life murder trial that took place in Germany in the 1820s, the play was written in 1837 but not staged until 1913.
  
  This edition, translated by Gregory Motton, includes an introduction by Kenneth McLeish, a chronology and suggestions for further reading.

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  MERCHANT OF VENICE THE -...

  William Shakespeare, David Serero

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  THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare. Adapted by and Starring David Serero as Shylock. Off-Broadway Studio Cast Album Recording 2015.

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  The Other Side of Sleep -...

  Kate Foley, Adrienne Silcock,...

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  What started as a complaint about the '40-line rule' in much of the poetry world has turned into an anthology that not only breaks that rule, but stomps all over it. Featuring 25 poems which break the rules - these are long, narrative, but by no means traditional poems, by contemporary voices.
  
  Themes both great and small are explored in narrative poems that pack a punch. Human interactions from conversation, storytelling, lending and borrowing, theft, prayer, memory, shopping and a long walk, right through to sexuality, time travel, truce negotiations, disappearance, natural disaster, violence and death are all explored, many of them rooted in landscape and place. These lie alongside equally rooted mythological and historical tales drawn from Greece, Turkey, Africa, Scandinavia and Britain.
  
  What draws all these themes together is the strength of the storytelling. Emotions as diverse as frustration, disappointment, embarrassment, hope, nostalgia, anger, and fear are channelled through spectacular poetry in many different forms into truly satisfying work.

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  Bird Song and Nectar in the...

  Lisa Lopresti

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  A streamlined book of comtemporary poetry, beautifully crafted, flowing and engaging. Pauline Sewards, a wonderful poet whose most recent collection of poems is 'Spirograph' with Burning Eye says reading the poems 'reminds me of going into a shop full of colourful, gauzy scarves with a variety of patterns. The poems are sensual; they sing with positivity.' A lovely collection of short poems narrated by the author.

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  Transit Authority - Poems

  Tony Sanders

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  The prize-winning poet and author of Partial Eclipse continues his investigation of urban metaphysical pathos in this collection. 
   
  Transit Authority is made up of three sequences that mark the early and late junctures of the twentieth century: the first, a series of poems that investigate the early part of the century; the second, meditations based on the 1930s photographs by Berenice Abbott; and the third, “Reckoning,” in which, with spare lyricism, Sanders meditates on where this century has brought us. 
   
  Sanders looks with rueful intrigue at a landscape inundated with near misses and has-beens. While it is tempting to turn away from the common predicament, his poems quietly urge us to keep looking. As the poet concludes, though “things aren’t what they should be according to the map . . . we have to press on in search of our bearings.”

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