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  Double Feature: Two (NHB Modern...

  Prasanna Puwanarajah

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  Double Feature brings together - in two volumes of paired short plays - four of the most exciting new voices in UK theatre, in their first commissions for the National Theatre.
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  - Nightwatchman by Prasanna Puwanarajah
  - There is a War by Tom Basden  In Nightwatchman a British Sri Lankan cricketer prepares for the innings of her life for England against Sri Lanka at Lord's. Facing a relentless bowling machine she challenges our preconceptions of politics, sport and national pride as harshly as she challenges her own.
  There is a War is a miniature epic that explores the mad savagery of war with biting black comedy, and takes us into the dark heart of a strange and surreal conflict.
  As soldiers, priests and scavengers roam a battle-scorched landscape, a young medical officer finds herself abandoned and useless, unable to locate the hospital or even the war she was promised.
  The plays premiered in a specially converted space at the National Theatre in July 2011. They were performed alongside Edgar & Annabel by Sam Holcroft and The Swan by DC Moore, published in the companion volume Double Feature: One.
  'sharp, funny and fizzing with invention' - The Times
  'marvellously incisive' - Independent
  'a sharp satire with an irresistibly silly strain' - Financial Times

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  Short Poetry Collection 026

  Various Various

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  LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 026: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  Lake

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. - Summary by Wikipedia

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  Shane - Adapted from the...

  Mr Punch

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  Mr Punch Presents: SHANE, the classic western, nominated for six Academy Awards, is set in the late 1860’s and tells the story of the mysterious retired gunslinger (Alan Ladd), who arrives at the ranch of a family of homesteaders, only to find himself involved in a violent range war. In this special radio production both Alan Ladd and Van Heflin reprise their original film roles from the Oscar winning movie. 
   
  This high-quality audiobook has been re-mastered and re-edited from the original radio broadcast. 
    
  Also available as part of the Hollywood Playhouse BOX SET, a collection of 14 Oscar winning ear-movies, adapted from the original screenplays & performed for the radio by many of the original film stars in front of a live studio audience. 
    
  These radio dramas were….to become as popular as the movies themselves. Hollywood Movie Memories 
    
  This is an excellent audio product that will appeal to the majority of audiobook listeners. Talking Business 
    
  A lovely series to add to any film, audio or crime lovers’ collection. Audio World 
   

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  Sink (NHB Modern Plays)

  John O'Donovan

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  Sink is a play of two voices for one actor, about memory, catastrophe and sacrifice. Bríd's coming home to convalesce after drying out in rehab. Ciara's headed west too, investigating a potential archaeological site on a parched area of bogland. But as the countryside swelters in a heatwave, the pair find peace elusive. How will Bríd cope in her old haunts? How will Ciara confront a past she thought forgotten? And will they unearth the hidden truth that binds them together?
  Sink premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2019, directed by Thomas Martin.
  'O'Donovan is a gifted writer, the lines curl about each other with elegance and depth' - Irish Independent

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  The Time Machine: A Comedy (NHB...

  John Nicholson, Steven Canny

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  When the worlds of science-fiction and science-fact collide… extraordinary things can happen.
  Dave is the great-great grandson of H.G. Wells, author of the 1895 novella The Time Machine, a book that foretold (with suspicious accuracy) the future of the human species. What if the ideas in that book weren't entirely fiction? Right now, Dave and his friends Amy and Michael must set out on a journey through time… the journey of a lifetime!
  The Time Machine: A Comedy is (very loosely) adapted from H.G. Wells by Steven Canny and John Nicholson, whose previous adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles was a hit in the West End and subsequently for numerous companies worldwide. It was first produced in 2023 on a tour of the UK, before a run at Park Theatre, London, produced by Original Theatre and directed by Orla O'Loughlin.
  Fast-paced and wise-cracking, this riotous retelling zips from the nineteenth century to the end of the world, and (with any luck) back again. It will suit any theatre company looking for a time-bending adaptation of a well-loved story – and a surefire audience-pleaser.
  'Breathtaking… gloriously silly, unrestrained fun' - The Stage
  'Exquisitely entertaining… thoroughly, ridiculously amusing' - Indiependent
  'A rollercoaster ride through time and space' - What's On Bristol

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