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  Mr Incredible (NHB Modern Plays)

  Camilla Whitehill

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  A monologue about love and entitlement by Camilla Whitehill, author of Where Do Little Birds Go?, who was described by The Times as 'a writer of huge promise'.
  Adam is single. He doesn't like it. He misses Holly. He deserves Holly. Doesn't he?
  Mr Incredible was selected for the 2016 VAULT Festival, London. It is also available in the volume Plays from VAULT.

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  Don Juan Canto 5

  Lord Byron

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  Juan, captured by Turkish pirates and sold into slavery is bought by a beautiful Princess as her toy-boy. Dressed as an odalisque, he is smuggled into the Sultan's harem for a steamy assignation. Unbelievably, Byron's publisher almost baulked at this feast of allusive irony, blasphemy (mild), calumny, scorn, lesse-majeste, cross-dressing, bestiality, assassination, circumcision and dwarf-tossing. This was the last Canto published by the stuffy John Murray (who had, however, made a tidy fortune on the earlier parts of the Epic). Although Byron's mood starts, after this, to grow darker and his bitterness at English hypocrisy to grow sharper, his discursive comedy and precise and intriguing rhyme is rarely better than in Canto V. (Summary by Peter Gallagher)

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  Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts

  Bill Nye

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  Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves." And he did exactly that in hundreds of newspaper columns that were later collected into books.  This is a selection of just 35 of the most humorous, wry and downright funny cogitations of his, written of course in the somewhat convoluted style common in the 19th century which just adds to their flavor in my opinion.  The selection process was rigorous: only those that made me laugh, giggle or snort are included. (Summary by phil Chenevert)

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  Oedipus at Colonus

  Sophocles

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  This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family.  After fulfilling the prophecy that predicted he would kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus blinds himself and leaves Thebes, to wander in the wilderness accompanied by his daughters Antigone and Ismene. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast:Oedipus: Andy MinterAntigone: Elizabeth KlettIsmene: Arielle LipshawTheseus: Mark F. SmithCreon: Bruce PiriePolyneices: David GoldfarbStranger: Lucy PerryMessenger: Martin GeesonChorus: Lars RolanderNarrator: David LawrenceAudio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

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  The Graduate

  Terry Johnson, Charles Webbe,...

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  An American classic adapted for the stage, starring Kathleen Turner as Mrs. Robinson and Matthew Rhys as Benjamin Braddock. A fresh-faced college grad returns home, diploma in hand, to seek an answer to that age old question: “Now what?” Lacking any clear career path, he falls prey to the original “cougar”, the predatory Mrs. Robinson, wife of his father's business partner. But it’s Mrs. Robinson’s daughter who captures his heart.Includes and interview with the star of The Graduate, screen legend Kathleen Turner.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Kathleen Turner as Mrs. RobinsonMatthew Rhys as Benjamin BraddockBruce Davison as Mr. BraddockJohn Getz as Mr. RobinsonJamison Jones as Hotel Clerk and othersDevon Sorvari as Elaine RobinsonLinda Purl as Mrs. Braddock and othersAdapted for the stage by Terry Johnson, based on the novel by Charles Webb and the screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. Directed by John Rubinstein.  Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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  Scared Violent Like Horses - Poems

  John McCarthy

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  In this poetry collection, the author of Ghost Country deeply examines violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being. 
   
  McCarthy’s flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch for fun. He shows us a boy struggling to understand pain carried down through generations and how quickly abandonment becomes a silent kind of violence; “how we deny each other, daily, so many chances to care,” and how “we didn’t know how to talk about loss, / so we made each other lose.” Constant throughout is the brutality of the Midwestern landscape that, like the people who inhabit it, turns out to be beautiful in its vulnerability: sedge grass littered with plastic bags floating like ghosts, dilapidated houses with abandoned Fisher Price toys in the yard, and silos of dirt and rust under a sky that struggles to remember the ground below. 
   
  With arresting lyricism and humility, Scared Violent Like Horses attends to the insecurities that hide at the heart of what’s been turned harsh, offering a smoldering but redemptive and tender view of the lost, looked over, and forgotten. 
   
  Selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize 
   
  Praise for Scared Violent Like Horses 
   
  “McCarthy’s book of Midwestern threnodies begins in image and ends in solemnity . . . McCarthy’s poems are profluent stories?a joy to marvel at this skill, impressive considering the book’s bleak landscape.” —The Millions 
   
  “McCarthy has whittled out a sense of freedom from the heartache of the past, and the reader is left with a remarkable vision.” —Booklist 
   
  “In unshowy, plaintive, quietly delivered language that should not be mistaken for affectless?and that can be stabbed through with surprisingly piercing metaphor—McCarthy vivifies a place and hard way of life too little visited.” —Library Journal 
   
  “Ultimately, what the reader is left with is a stunning overlap of lost boy and lost landscape glimpsed through the lens of a gifted poet’s magical linguistic and storytelling abilities.” —Victoria Chang 
   
  “A book that grabs the reader with its insistent lyric beauty.” —Allison Joseph

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