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  Other Worlds (NHB Modern Plays)

  Robert Holman

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  'If the French do come, it'll be on a night like this.'
  A gorilla is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community on the isolated North Yorkshire coast.
  Robert Holman's play explores the suspicions, antipathies and fears of the unknown that divide communities, and the bonds that can transcend those divisions.
  In the end 'we're equal when we die, except f'the coffin'.
  Other Worlds was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in May 1983, directed by Richard Wilson.

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  Twilight Voices

  William Allingham

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  William Allingham  was an Irish poet, diarist and editor, who wrote several volumes of lyric verse. Here end sixteen poems, written by William Allingham, and selected for re-printing by William Butler Yeats. Printed upon paper made in Ireland, and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Dun Emer Press, in the house of Evelyn Gleeson at Dundrum, in the county of Dublin, Ireland, finished on the fifteenth day of September, in the year 1905. - Summary by David Lawrence

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  Lover's Vows

  Elizabeth Inchbald

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  Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child of Love," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of adapting the original German text for "an English audience." Even so, she left the setting as Germany.The play was first performed at Covent Garden on Thursday, 11 October 1798, and was an immediate success: it ran for forty-two nights, "making it by some distance Covent Garden's most successful venture of that season," and went on to be performed in Bristol, Newcastle, Bath, and elsewhere. It was likewise successful as a print publication, though it also aroused controversy about its "levelling" politics and moral ambiguity. Anne Plumptre, who translated Kotzebue's play as The Natural Son, wrote (perhaps not disinterestedly as the production of Inchbald's work effectively precluded the production of her own) that Inchbald had transformed the character of Amelia into a "forward country hoyden." Others, however, defended the morality of the play. And indeed, various characters indulge in considerable moralizing about charity, honour, and forgiveness. (Summary by wikipedia) 
  Cast: 
  Baron Wildenhaim, Countryman, and Prologue: Algy PugCount Cassel: John FrickerAnhalt and Narrator: AlanFrederick: Peter BishopVerdun the Butler and Epilogue: Ernst PattynamaLandlord: Martin GeesonCottager: David LawrenceFarmer: Dale BurgessGentleman: Ric FServant and Cottager's Wife: Amy GramourAgatha Firburg and Dramatis Personae: Sandra GAmelia Wildenhaim: Elizabeth BarrCountry Girl and Preface: rigbyjmNarrator: Paul AndrewsAudio edited by: Algy Pug

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  Short Poetry Collection 112

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2012.

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  Menagerie

  Cheryl Pearson

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  Menagerie is a collection of poems about animals, divided into three sections: water, earth and air. Some poems examine a creature from close-up, almost allowing the reader to see the world through the animal's eyes, while the poet is more present in other poems, looking on. The collection invites the reader to reflect on loneliness, love, mortality, and hope. Each poem is typeset with plenty of space around it, allowing it to breathe. With stylised illustrations by Amy Evans.
  from "Octopus Tank, Torbay Aquarium"
  
  I saw a ribbon of starlings once – they rose
  
  and fell in that same way, tied and re-tied Rome
  
  in a bow, and I thought the knot at their centre
  
  must be God. Here is God again in this stranger,
  
  the colour coursing her billow and flop like a weather map
  
  crawling with storms.

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  Girl in the Machine (NHB Modern...

  Stef Smith

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  'Do you want to live forever?
  YES or NO.'
  Polly and Owen have nailed it. Successful in their careers and wildly in love with each other, they feel ready to take on the world.
  But when a mysterious new technology, promising a break from the daily grind, creeps into everyone's phones, their world is turned upside down. As the line between physical and digital rapidly dissipates, Polly and Owen are forced to question whether their definitions of reality and freedom are the same.
  Girl in the Machine is a disturbing but compassionate vision of our potential digital future, and what it might mean for 'life' as we know it. The play premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2017, directed by Traverse Artistic Director Orla O'Loughlin.

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