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  Hotel (NHB Modern Plays)

  Caryl Churchill

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  An innovative theatre piece combining music, voices and dance, with a text by Caryl Churchill and music by Orlando Gough.
  Hotel is in two parts:
  In the first, Eight Rooms, fourteen people - tourists, couples and business people - spend an ordinary night in a hotel. But they all occupy the same space, their stories overlapping and interweaving and creating an exhilarating collage of words, voices, music and choreographed movement.
  In the second, a dance piece entitled Two Nights, we see two distinct nights happening at the same time. Two people find different ways to disappear, while a diary found in another hotel room tells of one more extraordinary disappearance.
  'Elusive, poetic, striking and substantial' - The Times
  'Their pieces have the power to make you leave the theatre in an altered state' - Observer

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  Just Peace - A Message of Hope

  Mattie J. T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter

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  From a New York Times bestselling author, an inspirational world vision from the boy Jimmy Carter called “the most remarkable person I have ever known.”   “I was touched by the depth of passion and awed by the firm resolve with which Mattie Stepanek pursued a dream that has evaded men and women throughout history. What began as a casual discourse . . . became a treasured and enlightening friendship that changed my life forever.” —Jimmy Carter    Sometimes the most important messages come from the most unlikely places. Mattie J.T. Stepanek, a thirteen-year-old boy, made a difference before he died with his Heartsongs poetry series. He continues to impact the world through Just Peace. This poet, best-selling author, peace activist, and prominent voice for the Muscular Dystrophy Association fervently believed in world peace not just as a concept, but as a reality.   Mattie was working on this manuscript with Jimmy Carter when he died in June 2004. Just Peace explores Mattie's concept of the world and all people as a unique mosaic of gifts. War and injustice shatter the mosaic, which can only be made whole again by planning and actively pursuing peace. The young visionary's essays, poetry, and photographs appear throughout the book.   Just as important to the book and enlightening to the reader are Mattie's many correspondences, including his personal e-mails to and from former president Nobel Peace Laureate Jimmy Carter, Mattie's peace “hero” and role model, who has written a special forward for the book. Just Peace is an intimate portrait of a president, a young man of hope, and peace itself.

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  Just Like You - And Other...

  Julie C. Gilbert

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  Just Like You 
  You’re my hope. You’re my hero. 
  You know all I am and what I can be. 
  Take this hard heart and make it like yours. 
  Holy Father, I need your heart. 
    
  You’re my heart. You’re my hero. 
  Let my life reflect your love. 
  Give me eyes to see past walls. 
  Give me ears to hear heart cries. 
  Give me hands that heal in your name. 
  O Holy Father, I want to be just like you. 
    
  You’re my Father. You’re my hero. 
  May my spirit walk with you. 
  Train my mind to see the lost ones. 
  Tune my ears to hear your voice. 
  May my soul shine with your light. 
  Dear Holy Father, I want to be just like you. 
    
  You’re my light. You’re my hero. 
  You know all I am and what I will be. 
  Take this one soul and make it like yours.  
  Dear Dad, I want to be just like you. 
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  This is the second inspirational Christian poetry collection. It’s preceded by Thin Black Road and followed by My Champion. The combination book, Made to Praise, contains all three collections.

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  Metamorphoses (NHB Modern Plays)

  Ovid Ovid, Laura Lomas, Sabrina...

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  From the everyday to the astonishing, and the ordinary to the miraculous, the Roman poet Ovid's stories of epic impossibilities explore the power of transformation, the resilience of humans, and the wonder of life.
  The myths of Metamorphoses have inspired generations of writers, including Shakespeare. Over two thousand years later, they are reimagined for our world by three leading British playwrights, and feature anarchy, shape-shifting and a burning chariot of fire.
  This entertaining and provocative new play, by Sami Ibrahim, Laura Lomas and Sabrina Mahfouz, was written for the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe, London. It was first performed by four actors in 2021, and directed by Globe Associate Artistic Director, Sean Holmes and Associate Artistic Director of Headlong, Holly Race Roughan.

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  Maskwork

  Gregory Leadbetter

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  In Gregory Leadbetter's second poetry collection, Maskwork, mystery, theatre and ritual combine to reveal rather than to disguise. The mask, in these resonant poems, acts as a way of becoming, seeing, and knowing – granting access to altered states and otherworlds hidden within and beyond ourselves. Here, language itself becomes an animating magic, connecting humans to our ecological roots.
  The spirit of revival, renaissance, new birth and rebirth haunts this book: and at its core, the idea of poetry itself as a form of learning – an art and a mystery – runs like a quicksilver thread throughout, between the elusive and the certain. Leadbetter's meticulously attuned lyrical poetry tells of the transformative experience of knowing, a dynamic state of being that forever alters both the knower and the known.

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  The Chaos

  Gerald Nolst Trenité

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  The Chaos is a poem which demonstrates the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation, written by Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), also known under the pseudonym Charivarius. It first appeared in an appendix to the author's 1920 textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen. (From Wikipedia)

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