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  Scissors (NHB Modern Plays)

  Chris Bush

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  The apprenticeships are only meant to last a year - there were never any guarantees beyond that. For Ava, Liv, Mason and Trent, they're just trying to get through the day. They don't know why there's an endless stream of strangers passing through, but no-one ever tells them anything. In a couple of months they'll be kicked out anyway, and God knows what happens after that. Who's looking out for them?
  Scissors is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's trilogy of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors. The three plays were first performed simultaneously with the same cast moving between three theatres in Sheffield – the Crucible, the Lyceum and the Studio – as part of Sheffield Theatres' fiftieth birthday celebrations in 2022.

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  Favour

  Ambreen Razia

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  'I'm going to answer all your wishes, bubba! Big or small, it'll be me who makes them come true, no one else.'
  Leila is happy living at home with Noor, her loving but traditional grandmother. But when Aleena, her fiercely independent mother, returns home from prison determined to deliver a new world of fun and excitement, their calm lives are upended in a blur of nail varnish and sweet treats.
  Family secrets come tumbling into the light, and Leila finds the task of deciding on her future more difficult than she first thought.
  Ambreen Razia's play Favour is a touching and hopeful family drama about a working-class Muslim family, tackling duty, addiction and the challenge of pulling yourself back together after it all falls apart. It was a Bush Theatre and Clean Break co-production and premiered at the Bush, London, in 2022, directed by Róisín McBrinn and Sophie Dillon Moniram.

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  Window into My World

  Shivani Rangole

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  Window Into My World is a medley of short stories and poems. A poetess sitting by a window in her favourite café feels inspired by all the happenings around her. When she sees people, she doesn't just see what they are doing but how they must be feeling. Each short story is a prelude to a beautiful poem inspired by someone's presence. 'Window Into My World ' is dedicated to everyone and anyone who might find themselves in my stories.

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  Melting Pot

  Israel Zangwill

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  Russian-Jew David Quixano has come to America after surviving a pogrom which has killed his family. He has written a symphony which embodies his vision of America as a melting pot, into which people from all the nations of the earth come, and "the great Alchemist melts and fuses them with his purging flame! Here shall they all unite to build the Republic of Man and the Kingdom of God." But old hatreds and old sins die hard.... Note: There are attitudes and terms in the play and the afterword that may be offensive to some listeners.(Summary by TriciaG)Cast List:David Quixano: Tomas PeterVera Revendal: Lian PangMendel Quixano: Mark ChulskyKathleen O'Reilly: LydiaHerr Pappelmeister: David OlsonFrau Quixano: AvailleQuincy Davenport, Jr.: K. Adrian StroetBaron Revendal: John BurlinsonBaroness Revendal: SoniaSettlement Servant: Charlotte DuckettNarrator: ToddHWEdited by TriciaGProof-listened by TriciaG and David Lawrence

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  Chinese Poetry in English Verse...

  Herbert Allen Giles

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  Dear Land of Flowers, forgive me! -- that I tookThese snatches from thy glittering wealth of song, And twisted to the uses of a book Strains that to alien harps can na'er belong. Thy gems shine purer in their native bed Concealed, beyond the pry of vulgar eyes; And there, through labyrinths of language led, The patient student grasps the glowing prize. Yet many, in their race toward other goals, May joy to feel, albeit at second-hand, Some far faint heart-throb of poetic souls Whose breath makes incense in the flowery Land. Introductory poem by H.A.G.

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  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse Vol...

  Harriet Monroe

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  Spring through Fall 1921 in Poetry, edited by Harriet Monroe. 2012 is the 100th Anniversary of Poetry magazine. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

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