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  Liz Lochhead Five Plays (NHB...

  Liz Lochhead

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  Five plays from the makar (national poet) of Scotland, one of the country's best-known (and best-loved) living playwrights.
  Liz Lochhead is the author of many highly inventive original plays, adaptations and translations, all crafted with her special blend of the vividly colloquial and the energetically poetic. This volume brings together five of her best original plays ranging over three decades and several, contrasting styles.
  Her first play, Blood and Ice (1982), is about the creation of Frankenstein, and weaves a spider's web of connections between the literary monster and Mary Shelley's own turbulent life.
  The modern classic Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off (1987) retells the familiar tale of enmity between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, with Lochhead's own brand of ferocious iconoclasm and boundless wit.
  Quelques Fleurs (1991) is a portrait of a marriage, both funny and tragic, and told through interlaced monologues.
  The last two plays, Perfect Days (1998) and Good Things (2004), mark a woman's fear of turning, respectively, forty and fifty. In the first, Barbs, 39, a celebrity hairdresser, determines to do something to drown out the ticking of her biological clock. In the second, Susan, 49, sets out to find love the second (or is it third or fourth?) time round'
  This rich collection of plays carries a new and candid introduction by the author, specially written for the volume.
  'Funny, feisty, female, full of feeling' Liz Lochhead possesses the deeply Scottish qualities of independence, inquisitiveness and inventiveness' Carol Ann Duffy

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  Julius Caesar

  William Shakespeare

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  Julius Caesar triumphantly returns Rome where he is met by betrayal, conspiracy and ultimately, assassination followed by Mark Antony’s revenge on the plotters. The drama is also the story of Marcus Brutus and his struggle between the conflicting demands of his friendship with Caesar and his loyalty to Roman ideals.

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  It's About Time - Poems of an...

  Lesley Storm

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  "I'm a woman. I support them. I'm bisexual. I support them. I'm a feminist. I support them. I endure regular abuse for being trans. I support them. I am called a "poof" by the unenlightened. I support them. My name is Lesley, and I'm a woman ― that is to say that I am human, just like you, and you like me."
  A meditation on the passing of time, a declaration that life, love and poetry are defined by time, are all about time and timing.
  Here are love poems, life poems, elegies, aubades, odes, existential solitude poems, prose poems, joyous poems of fleeting human pleasures, poems compassionate, sanguine and witty, poems delicate with vulnerability, urgent poems on survival over time.
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  These are powerful, moving and accomplished poems that speak to all humanity, written by a certain woman documenting her uncertain becomings over time.
  Whatever the certainties of those enforcing it or of those of us willingly or unwillingly defined by it, the category 'woman' has always been uncertain.
  'One is not born a woman', Simone de Beauvoir observes, 'one becomes one'.
  But what is it to be deeply certain of an urgent calling to womanhood all of one's life yet violently excluded from such a becoming?
  What is it to win through?

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  Don't Walk Alone

  G. G.M.Hague

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  Look inside the mind of a psychopathic killer - the worst kind. James never believes he is anything but normal. A man who falls in love with beautiful young women, just like everyone else. He's the perfect lover, a successful professional, wealthy, and living his dream. He doesn't care that the women he loves disappear, never to be seen again. He's careful to hide all traces and cover his tracks. No one would ever suspect James lives another life behind his kindly, benevolent persona.Then things start to slowly unravel when James takes things too far because the true love of his life is suddenly within reach. His intricate web of deceit is in danger of unravelling.But James hasn't survived this long in the shadows without being clever and resourceful. He can still have everything he wants and never reveal the truth.Don't Walk Alone will make think twice about who to trust, who to believe, and who to allow through your door.

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  The man who had sunshine in his...

  Zane Pinner

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  Love and compassion are pitted against selfish greed in this heart-wrenching ballad from an award-winning Australian author. 
  A kind-hearted Tasmanian farmer has an incredible secret - sunshine flows through his veins, protecting him from injury and illness. But when the farmer embarks on an overseas mission to save a young girl's life, his secret is revealed to a shameless world.  
  "The market healer scrutinized the farmer - with surprise. His kundalini quivered. He had dollars in his eyes. He straight away put up a sign above his smelly shop; “A heal all tonic! Guaranteed! Just fifty bucks a pop!”

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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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