Other books that might interest you

• 

  Room with a View A (dramatic...

  E.M. Forster

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century. (Summary by Wikipedia)Cast:Lucy Honeychurch/Narrator: Arielle LipshawCharlotte Bartlett: Elizabeth KlettMr. Emerson: asterixGeorge Emerson: nomorejeffsMr. Beebe: Bob NeufeldMiss Eleanor Lavish: Patti CunninghamMiss Theresa Alan: ElleyKatMiss Catharine Alan: MaryankaItalian Lady/Persephone/Maid: Libby GohnMr. Eager/Powell: Ric FVicar/Sir Harry Otway/Phaethon/Freddy Honeychurch: tovarischMrs. Honeychurch: CaprishaPageCecil Vyse: Brett W. DowneyMrs. Vyse: Etel BussMinnie Beebe: Charlotte DuckettAudio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

  Show book

• 

  Camper

  E. Pauline Johnson

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's beautiful heritage of the forest primeval. A simple stone surrounded by rustic palings marks her grave and on this stone is carved the one word "Pauline." There she lies among ferns and wild flowers a short distance from Siwash Rock, the story of which she has recorded in the legends of her race. In time to come a pathway to her grave will be worn by lovers of Canadian poetry who will regard it as one of the most romantic of our literary shrines. (from the Biographical Sketch in Flint and Feather: Collected Verse by E. Pauline Johnson)

  Show book

• 

  Roundabout (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lluïsa Cunillé

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A fascinating study of obsession and delusion, conversations left unfinished and people incapable of change.
  Spanish dramatist Lluïsa Cunillé's play Roundabout was first performed in this English translation by Oscar Ceballos and Mary Peate at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1997.

  Show book

• 

  Your Therapist Says It’s Magical...

  Sadie McCarney

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Sadie McCarney’s Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking is a buoyant second collection that playfully navigates the turbulent waters of life with mental illness and neurodivergence. In much of the book, history and science are treated the way they are often viewed by a brain in mental turmoil: places and events get switched around, facts get rewritten, and the fantastical reigns supreme. Through poems ranging from didactic (the horrible “self-care” advice received by the poet when she was struggling most) to historical fiction (patients in an asylum in 1800s England), to the quirky and unexpectedly fantastical (a rainbow carpool unicorn, a young child’s timeline reversing each morning, and an everything bagel that includes competing theories of time), McCarney digs deep into the muck of her own lived experience. She resurfaces with, if not gold, at least an old time capsule and a few treasured hunks of bone. Your Therapist Says It’s Magical Thinking highlights the sometimes dubious (but always jubilant) inner workings of a mentally unwell brain at play — especially within the context of a larger society that frequently seeks to tamp down this weird and rare form of magic.

  Show book

• 

  The Imaginary Invalid

  Molière Molière

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed in 1673 and was the last work he wrote. In an ironic twist of fate, Molière collapsed during his fourth performance as Argan on 17 February and died soon after. (Summary by Wikipedia) 
  Cast:Argan, an imaginary invalid: Allen JohnsBeline, second wife to Argan: Nadine Eckert-BouletAngelique, daughter to Argan: Arielle LipshawLouison, Argan's young daughter: Elizabeth KlettBeralde, brother to Argan: Delmar H. DolbierCleante, lover to Angelique: mbMr. Diafoirus, a physician: WupperhippoThomas Diafoirus, his son: engineerdstMr. Purgon, physician to Argan: Bellona TimesMr. Fleurant, an apothecary/Mr. De Bonnefoi, a notary: Alan MapstoneToinette, maidservant to Argan: AvailleNarrator: ToddHWAudio edited by Arielle Lipshaw

  Show book

• 

  The Kingdom of Surfaces - Poems

  Sally Wen Mao

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In The Kingdom of Surfaces, award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao examines art and history—especially the provenance of objects such as porcelain, silk, and pearls—to frame an important conversation on beauty, empire, commodification, and violence. In lyric poems and wide-ranging sequences, Mao interrogates gendered expressions such as the contemporary “leftover women,” which denotes unmarried women, and the historical “castle-toppler,” a term used to describe a concubine whose beauty ruins an emperor and his empire. These poems also explore the permeability of object and subject through the history of Chinese women in America, labor practices around the silk loom, and the ongoing violence against Asian people during the COVID-19 pandemic.At its heart, The Kingdom of Surfaces imagines the poet wandering into a Western fantasy, which covets, imitates, and appropriates Chinese aesthetics via Chinamania and the nineteenth-century Aesthetic Movement, while perpetuating state violence upon actual lives. The title poem is a speculative recasting of Through the Looking-Glass, set in a surreal topsy-turvy version of the eponymous China-themed 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala. The Kingdom of Surfaces is a brilliantly conceived call for those who recognize the horrors of American exceptionalism to topple the empire that values capital over lives and power over liberation.

  Show book