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  We are Three Sisters (NHB Modern...

  Blake Morrison

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  Poet, playwright and novelist Blake Morrison evokes the lives of the Brontë sisters, with a nod to Chekhov's Three Sisters.
  Against the backdrop of a windswept northern village, three remarkable young women live their lives brightly.
  In Haworth in the 1840s, in a gloomy parsonage, where there are neither curtains nor comforts, Charlotte, Anne and Emily Brontë light up their world with outspoken wit, aspirations, dreams and ideas. And throughout their confined lives intensely lived… they write.
  With a touch of poetic licence, Morrison shows us the overwhelming humanity, charged emotions and brooding unease which characterise the Brontë household - and that of Chekhov's Three Sisters.
  Blake Morrison's play We Are Three Sisters was first performed at the Viaduct Theatre, Halifax, in 2011.
  'Well-researched... beautifully intact, and speaks absolutely to the constrained world the Brontës inhabited' - Telegraph
  'Morrison's use of the Three Sisters template is as intelligent as it is daring... a finely tuned piece' - Guardian

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  Letters To Lenin - Episode Three...

  Olivia Lewis-Brown

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  “The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.”― Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848) 
  Nikolai meets reporter Solomon Credge hoping he will help them publish an article about the communist movements strike. Credge threatens to blackmail Nikolai after having heard of his notoriety back in Russia, and the expensive bounty on his head. Credge warns Nikolai of spies within his ranks, paid by Clemence Reed to disband the strike from the inside. Bernard tells Nikolai Clemence Reed has paid scabs to go back to work, one of which is Oliver Spinks. 
  Nikolai asks Nancy to elope with him to Russia. Nikolai and Bernard discover a dead Oliver Spinks. Nikolai and Bernard are told by Gregor that Oliver was murdered earlier and found in the mines. They suspect Clemence Reed ordered one of his spies to murder Spinks and make it look like a miner to disband the strike. Nikolai decides to hide Oliver's body in the mine and claim he was buried in a cave until they can catch the killer to preserve the strike. Now with a murderer within their ranks, will the men be able to trust each other as the country revolutionises against corrupt capitalist industry? 
  Tension's run even higher in this electric third instalment of the Letters to Lenin series. A tale of betrayals, love, loyalty and the birth of a new political era.

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  Conor McPherson Plays: Two (NHB...

  Conor McPherson

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  The second collection of plays from the multi-award winning author.
  Featuring:
  The Weir
  A magical, compelling play set in present day Dublin on Christmas Eve. Undertaker John Plunkett is sharing memories of funerals over the years and dispensing advice to his young assistant. But the arrival of his daughter Mary - estranged, grown-up - shows him the time has come to face up to his own disastrous past. Otherwise, he will never be able to create some kind of truce with his fear of the future.
  Dublin Carol
  The spellbinding, beautifully observed hit from the master of suspenseful realism; combining superbly chilling tales of the supernatural with the hilarious banter of a small community in the heart of rural Ireland.Olivier Award for Best New Play
  Evening Standard Award for Best New Playwright
  Critic's Circle Award for Most Promising New Playwright
  Port Authority
  A wry, moving, funny tale of how modern man faces up to the responsibility of love, woven in monologues.
  Come On Over
  A short play about a Jesuit priest, sent to investigate a 'miracle' in his home town, who re-encounters the woman who loved him thirty years before.
  The collection also features an Afterword and in-depth interview with the author.
  'already heir to the great Irish tradition of absorbing tale-telling' - Guardian
  'The finest dramatist of his generation' - Telegraph

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  Short Story Press Presents...

  Short Story Press, Holly Williford

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  “Hello, my name is Aura Smith; we are here to take you back to your time. I do not exactly why you think killing, what was his name again… oh yes, Stalin was a great idea, but you can’t just go around fixing things like that. Without Stalin the world would have been a very different place, you see. I understand he was evil for whatever the historical context is, but we just can’t go altering all the bad things in history. The Fates do not like it. Not to mention it completely unravels time, so that there is no existence anymore. So it’s important that you do not try to do this again or I’ll be back to take you back to your time again. 
  “Why don’t you have a seat and I’ll make you a drink while I take you back to your time? I understand wanting to fix seemingly terrible events, and actually recently just tried to alter something minor myself. It wasn’t a historical figure or anything like that. They probably wouldn’t even have noticed, and I am not quite sure yet how they found out. I’m actually going to find out my punishment afternoon. I think I’ll have a drink as well.” 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Croak

  Jenny Sampirisi

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  Croak  is a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mashup of mid-century cartoons, all set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J. with Aristophanes, and biblical plagues with caged canaries in a vaudevillian play of time, culture, gender and narrative. Combining vivisection and classical literature, empirical observation and philosophical speculations, Sampirisi's grotesque characters splash and sparkle before moving toward their inevitable narrative end.
  
   
  
  
   
  In conversation with Samuel Beckett's  Words & Music ,  Croak  presents a negotiation between the doom and gloom of a species in crisis and the many empirical markers we attach to such creatures. Sampirisi reminds us that we are all porous in the mud of language.

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  Separation: A History

  Christine Chia

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  The sequel to The Law of Second Marriages, the best-selling and critically acclaimed poetry book by Christine. With "terrifying sparseness and intensity", as Cyril Wong observes, Christine threads together stories of the Separation between Singapore and Malaysia with the separation between her parents. Her searing vision, ambitious and intimate, opens up emotional spaces in unlikely places. 
   
  "Christine's writing balances a journalist's clarity with a poet's desire to color and invent. In this boldly innovative book, she tells how the history of a family and that of a nation curiously come to mirror each other. By alternating poems with news clippings, photos, and google searches, she also creates a dialogue between public and private, personal and political, fact and fantasy. At times, the effect is poignant, at times playful, but in every instance, Christine proves she knows how "to love/ like an economist" and make every word shine." - Elaine Equi, author of Click and Clone

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