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  A Essay on Man

  Alexander Pope

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  Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in the vast Chain of Being.Each of the poem’s four Epistles takes a different perspective, presenting Man in relation to the universe, as individual, in society and, finally, tracing his prospects for achieving the goal of happiness.In choosing stately rhyming couplets to explore his theme, Pope sometimes becomes obscure through compressing his language overmuch. By and large, the work is a triumphant exercise in philosophical poetry, communicating its broad and commonplace truths in superbly balanced phrases which remind us that Pope, alas, is one of the most quoted but least read writers in English:“Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.”(Summary by Martin Geeson)

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  Spinning (NHB Modern Plays)

  Deirdre Kinahan

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  A devastating new play about loss and families, by Deirdre Kinahan, one of Ireland's most exciting playwrights.
  What does it feel like to lose everything? To explain? What does it take to forgive the unforgivable?
  In small-town Ireland, father-of-one Conor is desperate to hold on to a life that is disintegrating before his eyes. Susan is a mother searching for reason in the darkness of her teenage daughter's killing. When they finally meet, a contemporary tragedy comes to light.
  Spinning was first performed by Fishamble: The New Play Company as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2014.

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  Orson's Shadow

  Austin Pendleton

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  Sir Laurence Olivier. Orson Welles. Vivien Leigh. Joan Plowright. Kenneth Tynan. When these champions of the theatre get together to rehearse Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, mere mortals best step aside. With lightning wit and scathing insight into the true nature of genius, Austin Pendleton’s play opens the private worlds of these very public people, exposing their warmth, their egos, and their glittering madness.  
   
  
  
  Directed by Rosalind Ayres
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: 
  
  Caroline Goodall as Joan Plowright
  Glenne Headly as Vivien Leigh
  Martin Jarvis as Laurence Olivier
  Robert Machray as Orson Welles
  Orlando Seale as Sean
  Simon Templeman as Kenneth Tynan
  
  Associate Producer: Susan Raab
  Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Editor: David Kelly for Voice Box Studios
  
  Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February 2003.

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  Abigail (NHB Modern Plays)

  Fiona Doyle

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  A man in his forties and a woman in her twenties meet on a trip to Berlin. Across a fractured timeline where past and present collide, the story of their relationship, their love and their struggle unravels.
  Abigail premiered at The Bunker, London, in 2017. The play was shortlisted for the Eamon Keane Full-Length Play Award.
  Fiona Doyle's other plays include Deluge (Hampstead Downstairs, winner of the Eamon Keane Award) and Coolatully (Finborough Theatre, winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize).
  'An expressive and memorable play' Exeunt Magazine on Coolatully
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  Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe...

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the fortnightly poetry project for June 28th, 2009.

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  Poisoned Polluted (NHB Modern...

  Kathryn O'Reilly

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  "I have to fight back. But I can't fight back. It's so strong, the feeling is so strong. I can't breathe and there's a tapping a light tapping that's when I wake. I wake up."
  Two sisters struggle to survive in the wake of a toxic childhood. Each must find a way to build a life out of chaos. But what happens when the ties that bind become the thing that holds you back?
  Inextricably linked by blood, all they have is each other.
  Kathryn O'Reilly's play Poisoned Polluted is a stark, bold, powerful and poetic drama looking at the effects on adult life of childhood trauma and the cycles of drug abuse. It premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in November 2019.

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