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  Me You Then Snow

  Khashayar Mohammadi

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  Me, You, Then Snow by Khashayar Mohammadi is a collection of poetry woven from dreams, memories and deep-seeded longing, a collection of poetry that ranges from ambiguously addressed love-letters, to ekphrastic poems for arthouse cinema, to pieces written near midnight when the day’s experiences rush back into view. Though working in diverse forms and styles, the poetry manifests as a profoundly unified desire to experience and communicate the world.

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  Holding the Man (NHB Modern Plays)

  Tommy Murphy

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  Based on the award-winning memoir by Timothy Conigrave, and adapted for the stage by acclaimed playwright Tommy Murphy, Holding the Man tells a remarkable true-life love story that speaks across generations, sexualities and cultures.
  The course of teenage love rarely runs smooth, but it is a white-water adventure if you are secretly gay in an all-male school in 1970s Melbourne with a crush on the captain of the football team.
  Against the odds, Tim and John develop a relationship that, for fifteen years, survives everything life throws at it - the separations, the discriminations, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses - until the only problem that love can't solve turns up to part them.
  'Tommy Murphy is a bewitching playwright of startling originality' - Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, Artistic Directors of Sydney Theatre Company
  'fresh, frank and funny... a wrenchingly moving love story I defy anyone with a pulse not to relate to' - Evening Standard
  'Compelling, wrenching… unflinching, devastating, moving and funny' - Sydney Morning Herald

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  The Grapes of Wrath

  John Steinbeck, Frank Galati

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  A heart-wrenching full-cast adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck, starring Jeffrey Donovan and  Shirley Knight. Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath tells the powerful story of the Joad family’s trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California.  But what they find threatens to rip apart their lives, and sever the ties that bind them together. Starring Shirley Knight as Ma Joad, Frank Galati’s finds its timeless heart in the generous spirit of the common man.A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Shirley Knight as Ma JoadJeffrey Donovan as Tom JoadEmily Bergl as Rose of SharonMichael Buie as Connie and othersDaniel Chacon as Al JoadMaurice Chasse as Deputy Sheriff and othersShannon Cochran as Mrs. Wainwright and Elizabeth SandryTrista Delamere as 2nd Narrator and Al’s GirlFrancis Guinan as Jim CasyCharlie Matthes as Willy and othersGas Station Attendant and Hooper Ranch GuardRod McLachlan as Uncle JohnRobert Pescovitz as Pa JoadJoel Rafael as Car Salesman and Man with Guitar Stephen Ramsey as 1st Narrator and othersNick Sadler as Agricultural Officer and othersAndy Taylor as Gas Station Owner and othersFloyd Knowles and Weedpatch Camp DirectorTodd Waring as Hooper Ranch Bookkeeper and othersFredd Wayne as Grampa, Mayor of Hooverville and Camp GuardMichael Weston as Noah Joad and othersKate Williamson as Gramma and othersLive music performed by the Joel Rafael Band. Adapted by Frank Galati. Directed by Richard Masur. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  The Unreturning (NHB Modern Plays)

  Anna Jordan

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  A Northern British coastal town. Three young men are coming home from war.
  Their stories, set at different times over a hundred years, are beautifully interwoven in Anna Jordan's The Unreturning, a play that explores the profound effect that war has on young people's lives, and asks – what does coming home really mean? What is home? And when experience has shattered you into a million pieces, will home help to put you together again, or treat you as an ugly truth it does not want to confront?
  The Unreturning was premiered at Theatre Royal Plymouth in September 2018, in a co-production between Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth, before touring the UK.

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  The Swan (NHB Modern Plays)

  DC Moore

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  An examination of the ties that hold us together in a fractured society.
  In a decaying pub in South London, preparations are being made for a wake. With only an hour before their guests arrive, a family begin to settle their accounts. The ghosts of lives lived and opportunities missed are laid to rest as new and ancient betrayals are confronted and forgiven.
  'coarse, tart and funny' - The Times
  'DC Moore is the laureate of disappointed blokes in boozers and Jim is one of his most accurate, compassionate inventions' - Time Out
  'a savvy, worldly piece about deception and loyalty. Moore is one of the best thirty-something playwrights around, an expert analyst of half-truths and human weakness' - Evening Standard

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  Purple Pennies

  Tatiana Whigham

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  Sometimes, things are not what they seem, and the things that we carve the most are not always what we need. This story is centered around the life of a young lady named Trish who from the looks of things has it all: a great job, an ideal marriage, nice house, and other luxuries of life. But it's not until she fights her way to the top that she actually realizes how lonely being at the top can be. As life would have it, it's through a weird twists of events that she gets the chance to see her marriage, her career, and her life for what it really is, a sham of happiness coated with a tint of perfection. In just 48 hours, she gets the opportunity to have a second chance at life, happiness, and love. 

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