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  The Astronaut's Chair (NHB...

  Rona Munro

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  A thrilling play about the race to be the first woman in space.
  Renee Coburg is a gritty, glamorous aviator, the fastest, highest, bravest woman in the world. Jo Green is a determined, brilliant and much younger pilot with her eye on all Renee's records. They both want to be the first woman in space but there's only one chair at the top of the rocket.
  The Astronaut's Chair is Rona Munro's second 'space' play following Little Eagles, which is about the space race in Russia.
  'a beautifully written and sensitively executed docudrama' - Whatsonstage.com
  'the play shows the impact global politics and the whims of leaders can have on individual lives. It doesn't shirk from examining how personal rivalries are exacerbated when women have to compete for a single chair at a table where every other seat is occupied by men' - The Guardian
  'the dialogue is so elegant, so perfectly crafted and authentic... it's rare to see female power dynamics handled as subtly as they are here' - Exeunt Magazine

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  The Adventures of Old Ironsides...

  Jerry Robbins

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  USS CONSTITUTION is the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat, having been launched in 1797. In The Adventures of Old Ironsides, we dramatize two of her most exciting adventures. In The Barbary Pirates -  the year is 1805, and Constitution battles Tripolitan Pirates to free the crew of the captured USS Philadelphia. An edge of your seat adventure, it is based totally on fact with nothing thrown in for dramatic effect – it didn't need it!  In Escape To The Wind, Constitution finds herself in the War of 1812, and finds herself being chased by a squadron of five British Warships.  The wind dies down, and the ships are dead in the water, Captain Hull finds a way to distance himself from the superior force. An amazing but true story of Yankee ingenuity! By culling through the records of the Captain's logs, the Colonial Radio Theatre brings to life the adventures of the USS Constitution – Old Ironsides!

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  My Shadow

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Librivox volunteers bring you 14 readings of My Shadow, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson's famous poem concerns a child's shadow, and it's antics. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 7th, 2014. Summary by Sweet Pea.

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  [boxhead]

  Darren O'Donnell

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  Dr. Actions: What do you think it all means? Dr. Thinking: I think it means that our collaboration is destined for great heights and the basking glory of inter-planetary fame and fortune. Dr. Actions: But you said your dream was terrifying. Dr. Thinking: Well, I’ve always been afraid of success. Dr. Actions: Well, get over it, Blockbrain. Now that we’ve invented the echoless yell, nothing is going to getin our way. Lay it on me.
     
  Dr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. Unable to wrench it off, he attempts suicide, not only failing but also, unbeknownst to himself, cloning himself, creating Dr. Wishful Thinking. The two losers fall madly in love, fall in science and fail to make a baby.
     
  The cast consists of the two boxheads, who also play two disembodied narrators. The conversationbetween the four voices, an intricately woven semantic circus, traverses boxedness, love and the more ridiculous areas of metaphysical speculation. Through a series of rapid exchanges, verbal games and musical numbers, they discover that all their thoughts come from God, all their words come from the devil, and their desire for love is a habit acquired from the cinema. Sound familiar? Don’t be so hard on yourself.
     
  ‘Audacious, thought-provoking and frequently hilarious …a tightly wound complex of existential postulations, metaphysical ruminations and poop jokes.’
     
  – Eye Weekly

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  Donny's Brain

  Rona Munro

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  The acclaimed Scottish playwright Rona Munro has created a remarkable story about a man who wakes up from a car crash with brain damage. Now, he sees the world as the person he was three years ago, when his life and loves were in a very different place.This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Includes a conversation about brain trauma and memory loss with Dr. David Hovda, the Director of the Brain Injury Research Center at UCLA.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in June 2015.Directed by Martin JarvisProducing Director Susan Albert LoewenbergPaul Fox as AlJared Harris as DonnySiobhán Hewlett as TrishMoira Quirk as FleaSophie Winkleman as EmmaAssociate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson, Myke WeiskopfRecording and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerAssistant Recording Engineer and Editor: Wesley Dewberry

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  Big Big Sky (NHB Modern Plays)

  Tom Wells

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  Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. Angie and Lauren are closing up the café for another winter; the birds have gone south and taken the tourists with them. The last visitor is Dennis, stopping by for his pasty and beans. But there's another arrival – one that's unforeseen and life-changing for them all.
  
  Big Big Sky is a beautifully tender play by Tom Wells, who was originally from Kilnsea. The play explores nature's influence on love, friendship and family – the belief that anyone who's lost can be found, even in the remotest of places. It was premiered at Hampstead Theatre in July 2021, directed by Tessa Walker.

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