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  100 Great Plays For Women

  Lucy Kerbel

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  Lucy Kerbel's 100 Great Plays for Women is an inspiring guide to a hundred plays that put female performers centre stage, dispelling the myth that 'there aren't any good plays for women'. With a foreword by Kate Mosse.
  Women buy the majority of theatre tickets, make up half the acting profession and are often the largest cohort of any youth theatre or drama club. And yet they have traditionally been underrepresented on stage. 100 Great Plays for Women seeks to address this gap by celebrating plays that put female performers centre stage.
  Lucy Kerbel's myth-busting book features compact and insightful introductions to 100 plays, each of which has an entirely or predominantly female cast, with the female characters taking an equal or decisive role in driving the on-stage action. Also featured are 10 plays for solo female performers. The result is a personal but wide-ranging reappraisal of the theatrical canon, a snapshot of the very best writing - from ancient times right up to the present day - that has female protagonists at its heart.
  A fascinating mixture of familiar and less well-known works dealing with a broad range of themes, it is an essential resource for all directors and producers looking for plays to stage, writers seeking inspiration and actors trying to track down a new audition piece. It is also an exciting provocation that will have readers, both male and female, championing their own personal favourites.
  The book is the culmination of a project by Tonic Theatre and the National Theatre Studio. Tonic Theatre was founded by Lucy Kerbel in 2011 to support the theatre industry in achieving greater gender equality in its workforces and repertoires; it partners with leading theatre companies around the UK on a range of projects, schemes and creative works. The National Theatre Studio provides support and resources for both emerging and established theatre-makers of outstanding talent, and contributes to the National's ongoing search for and training of new artists.
  'A gem of a book' Lucy Kerbel has done hard-working directors and artistic directors, of spaces large and small, a great service.' Kate Mosse, from her foreword

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  Table

  Tanya Ronder

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  Six generations, twenty-three characters one very special piece of furniture. Tanya Ronder's thrilling play is an epic tale of belonging, identity and the things we pass on.
  Table was the first play to be staged in The Shed, a temporary venue at the National Theatre, London, to celebrate original, ambitious and unexpected theatre. It premiered in April 2013 in a production directed by Rufus Norris.
  'Highly inventive and often touching' Telegraph
  'Tremendous... richly textured' Guardian

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  Life (Raleigh Version)

  Sir Walter Raleigh

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Life by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 25th, 2010.

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  The Poems

  D. H. Lawrence

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  A collection of modern English poetry from the celebrated author of Lady Chatterly’s Lover. This definitive collection of D. H. Lawrence’s poems, both previously published and some not, presents here with the poems in their intended forms, reversing censorship and correcting long-missed errors for the first time. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive study of the composition, publication and reception of Lawrence’s most iconic poetry.

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  The Victorian Laureates - An...

  William Wordsworth

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  The office of Poet Laureate goes back many centuries – informally to the time of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1389 and followed thereafter by a number of ‘volunteer laureates’. It was formally assigned to Ben Jonson in 1617 and, as a Royal office by letters patent in 1670, to John Dryden. It is a rich, rewarding history that bursts with the words, themes and visions of many great poets that has bound poetry and poets to a Nations soul. 
   
  Victoria’s reign is mainly remembered as that which harnessed and amplified The Industrial Revolution with its myriad of inventions and the reinvention of society from agricultural to manufacturing. From there its thirst for markets and raw materials created a massive ‘Age of Empire’ that bestrode the globe yet, in its wake, left many in its homeland, destitute, impoverished and bereft of the advantages it trumpeted on a world stage.   
   
  In the Arts its artists flourished, exhibiting and publishing abroad working in new techniques and new media. In literature such noted talents as Dickens, Trollope, Thackeray, the Bronte sisters and many, many others were ambitious and acclaimed.  In Poetry we were spoilt for choice; the Brownings, Matthew Arnold, Coventry Patmore, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, an endless succession of wordsmiths.   
   
  Those Laureates appointed in Queen Victoria’s reign to represent the Nation are three in number and quite simply are staggering in both verse and talent: William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred Austin. 
   
  01 - The Victorian Laureates - An Introduction 
  02 - William Wordsworth - An Introduction 
  03 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  04 - It Was An April Morning Fresh and Clear by William Wordsworth 
  05 - Ode Composed on a May Morning by William Wordsworth 
  06 - Surprised By Joy Impatient As the Wind by William Wordsworth 
  07 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth 
  08 - My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth 
  09 - Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by William Wordsworth 
  10 - Written in London September1802 by William Wordsworth 
  11 - November1806 by William Wordsworth 
  12 - The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth 
  13 - The Foresaken by William Wordsworth 
  14 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth 
  15 - Tinturn Abbey (Extracts) By William Wordsworth 
  16 - Alfred Lord Tennyson - An Introduction 
  17 - Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  18 - The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  19 - Maud by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  20 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  21 - The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  22 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  23 - Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  24 - Ring Out Wild Bells by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  25 - The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  26 - Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  27 - Song - A Spirit Haunts the Year's Last Hours by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  28 - The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  29 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  30 - In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
  31 - Alfred Austin - An Introduction 
  32 - Agetha by Alfred Austin 
  33 - A Captive Throstle by Alfred Austin 
  34 - Though All the World by Alfred Austin 
  35 - A Night in June by Alfred Austin 
  36 - Spiritual Love by Alfred Austin 
  37 - In Praise of England by Alfred Austin 
  38 - Forgiveness by Alfred Austin 
  39 - A Farewell To Youth by Alfred Austin

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  Fired Again

  Annabelle Gurwitch

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  If you spend time at all in the work place you're going to get laid off, downsized, let go, out-sourced, axed, terminated, canceled, canned, dismissed - Fired!  Odds are you might even get Fired Again!  Annabelle Gurwitch's hugely popular book “Fired: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized and Dismissed” has led to the production of a hit movie in addition to the audio-play released by LA Theatre Works. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Scott Carter, Rob Cohen, Eric Gilliland, Jonathan Groff, Annabelle Gurwitch, Jeff Kahn, Wendy Kamenoff, Dani Klein Modisett, Maxine Lapiduss, John Lehr, Carol Leifer, Cathryn Michon, Tonya Pinkins, Matt Price, Glenn Rosenblum, Jessica van der Valk, Jane Edith Wilson and Roy Zimmerman.

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