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  Pilgrims (NHB Modern Plays)

  Elinor Cook

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  A play about adventure, betrayal, and man's impulse to conquer the world.
  Dan and Will climb mountains. Aged eighteen, they climbed Everest. They became legends.
  Rachel isn't interested in being a character in Dan's story. She intends to make her own. But with the thrill of a climb just days away, it's not just principles, but people, in danger.
  Elinor Cook's play Pilgrims premiered at HighTide Festival 2016, in a co-production with HighTide, Theatr Clwyd and Vicky Graham Productions, directed by Tamara Harvey.

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  Precious Little Talent (NHB...

  Ella Hickson

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  A touching and funny play about 20-somethings graduating into a world that's sold them down the river.
  Joey's got a first-class degree, 20k worth of debt and works in a pub. Shunned by the world, rejected by her estranged father, she finds herself falling in love with an idealistic young American'
  'It is young, full of spluttering energy and has a real fire in its belly about the need to retain your optimism in a cruel world' Hickson really is a little bit special' - Guardian
  'Terrific poignant freshness; Sam and Joey too seem like iconic figures for our time; caught between light and dark, life and death, cynicism and faith, and full of a life-force - an impressive follow-up to Eight.' - Scotsman

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  Failure to Thrive

  Suzannah Showler

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  Poetry of ambivalence, humour, and doubt that belies a kind of optimism  
  
  Dumpster fires outside discount stores and rotting whale carcasses; optical illusions and memento mori—all “coming to you direct, / by way of this Rube Goldberg machine.” Failure to Thrive zigzags through excess, taking in the big picture through the lens of a pinhole camera. These poems ask us to lean into our senses, to “spend time loitering, slipping coins into attention’s slots, / anticipating the next big pay-off.” 
  Hip and cerebral, this witty collection is as quick to make fun of itself as it is to turn its humour outward, where false historians have free rein, answers come in the form of questions, and the apocalypse seems like a good time to knit a sweater. Suzannah Showler’s debut shows us how a failing world can be the site of aesthetic renewal rather than decline.

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  The Three Actors - Behan Shaw &...

  Peggy Webber

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  Excerpts from three one-man shows, starring three of CART's, and the world's, finest actors.Featuring:"Five Men with a Pen" with Dan O'Herlihy; "Confessions of an Irish Rebel" with Shay Duffin; William Windom as James Thurber, and CART's announcer, John Harlan.Produced by Peggy Webber.

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  Nora

  Henrik Ibsen, Ingmar Bergman

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  "The late master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman streamlined Ibsen’s A Doll’s House to expose the contemporary heart of the 19th century masterpiece. Taut with suspense, this critically-acclaimed adaptation focuses on Nora, a young wife and mother who exploits her childlike charm to survive in a man’s world. But Nora has a secret that threatens her cozy existence, and she begins a perilous journey to find her way out. Recorded before a live audience at the Doubletree Guest Suites, Santa Monica, CA, in 1997.Adapted by Ingmar BergmanTranslated by Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone MarkerDirector: Steve AlbrezziProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergDavid Dukes as Torvald HelmerRobert Foxworth as Dr. RankNatalija Nogulich as Mrs. LindeLinda Purl as NoraJohn Vickery as Nils KrogstadRadio production and music arrangements by Raymond GuarnaFoley Artist: Amy Strong"

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  Intruder

  Jerrold Yam

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  At home with loneliness and passing encounters, can we be familiar with another or even ourselves? Does love outweigh the uncertainty of its memory? In his third and latest collection, award-winning poet Jerrold Yam ushers us into a traveller's world through sensitive and enquiring eyes, navigating a landscape of flitting figures, thoughts and emotions. 
   
   
  Informed by expansive travel across Asia and Europe, Yam's poetry is as varied as his journey, exploring geysers, horse riding and Picasso, while building on his preoccupations with family, sensuality and displacement. His poems make fresh the contradictions of young adulthood, its heady mix of determined restlessness, bold insecurities, desire for intimacy and fear of commitment. In his unflinchingly honest treatment of these themes, Yam exhibits new range and complexity as he describes a shifting terrain, where moving on is as difficult as letting go. 
   
   
  Above all, Intruder is an attempt to make sense of the impermanent structures that hold up one's life. Home, like love, may be a fiction that we must resist claiming for our own. After all, can we--and should we--be more than intruders? 
   
  "Jerrold Yam writes with an old voice and the youthful abandon of a poet out of his safe shell; a strong conviction of his depthless solitude yet weak in the presence of love and desire. His poems are lamentable etudes of one-word titles so vocal of absence and longing they are heartrending to those in the thick throes of love's discovery, loss and reconciliation." 
  -Grace Chia, author of Cordelia and womango

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