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  Social Acupuncture

  Darren O'Donnell

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  Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he could produce. So his latest show, A Suicide-Site Guide to the City, isn’t really a show; it’s an interactive chitchat about memory, depression, and 9/11, a dazzling whirl of talking streetcars, pizza and schizophrenia. And it’s hilarious.
     
  O’Donnell’s artistic practice has evolved into ‘something as close to hanging out as you can come and still charge admission.’ With his theatre company, Mammalian Diving Reflex, O’Donnell has generated a series of ongoing events that induce interactions between strangers in public; the Talking Creature, Q&A, Home Tours, the Toronto Strategy Meetings and Diplomatic Immunities bring people together in odd configurations, ask revealing questions and prove the generosity,abundance and power of the social sphere.
     
  Social Acupuncture includes the full text of A Suicide-Site Guide to the City and an extensive essay on the waning significance of theatre and the notion of civic engagement and social interaction as an aesthetic.
     
  ‘No other playwright working in Toronto right now has O’Donnell’s talent for synthesizing psychosocial, artistic and political random thoughts and reflections into compelling analyses … The world (not to mention the theatre world) could use more of this, if only to get us talking and debating.’
     
  – The Globe and Mail

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  The Secret Garden

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jeanne...

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  In this L.A. Theatre Works original commission, playwright Jeanne Sakata has created a new audio adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic. Mary Lennox is an orphaned 10-year-old who is sent to live with her uncle in his country house on the moors. Her new life is almost unbearable, but when she hears stories of the estate’s mysterious, abandoned garden she’s determined to discover its secrets.
   
  
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in June 2024.
   
  
   
  Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
   
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
   
  
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
   
  
   
  Jonathan Charles as Colin Craven, British Army Officer
   
  Shannon Cochran as Mrs. Medlock, Regina Crawford, Susan Sowerby
   
  Adhir Kalyan as Archibald Craven, Servant Ramji
   
  Alma Marian as Mary Lennox
   
  Cerris Morgan-Moyer as Martha Sowerby, Rose Lennox, Lily Craven and second Crawford Child
   
  Alastair James Murden as Dickon Sowerby, Captain Lennox, and first Crawford Child
   
  Ian Ogilvy as Ben Weatherstaff, Doctor, Innskeeper, British Army Officer, Pastor Edward Crawford
   
  Lina Patel as Ayah Lakshmi
   
  
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
   
  Technical Producer: Mark Holden
   
  Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
   
  Designed and Mixed by: Charles Carroll
   
  Assistant Designer: Chloe Foster
   
  Foley Artist: Mark Holden
   
  Foley Engineer: Chloe Foster
   
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
   
  Cultural Consultant: Lina Patel

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  The Telling

  Julia Webb

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  The Telling by Julia Webb is a distinctive and acutely-observed collection of poems that unravel the intricacies at the heart of human relationships – an insistent, quietly fierce tour de force from this Forward Prize commended poet. Moving and dark, we uncover the things that go unspoken between people despite their closeness.
  In turning her forensic focus on what makes us human, and in particular what it is that glues us together or causes us to come apart, Julia Webb's poetry examines the wreckage of complex lives to understand where the fault lines and fractures lie. What are the stories that construct our families and relationships, and who gets to tell them? Can we trust the stories we inherit, and what happens when we recover the right to tell things for ourselves? These compelling, taut poems crackle with the electricity of the untold – of flawed humans and hurt, of daring and being, of reclaiming and persisting.

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  Metamorphosis

  Vincetta

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  Metamorphosis explores generational trauma, heartbreak, shadow work, and ultimately coming to truth, self-love, and wholeness. 
  Metamorphosis is divided into three chapters, each diving deeper into a different phase of the metamorphosis. As you listen, you will go through the journey of healing with me—bearing witness to my state of mind, thoughts, and feelings. You will be submerged into my world as I transform from a caterpillar to butterfly, experiencing pain, healing, death, and rebirth. 
  My hope is that Metamorphosis can serve as a healing tool for you, as a catalyst guiding you to explore your own depths honestly and bravely so that you too can emerge anew.

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  Twenty Thousand Leagues under...

  Jules Verne

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  "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne is a classic science fiction novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around the mysterious appearances of a massive sea creature, which generates widespread sensation and scientific debate regarding its existence.  
  The narrative focuses on Professor Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and Canadian whaler Ned Land as they embark on a journey to confront this enigmatic creature, which turns out to be far more than anyone anticipated. The novel opens by detailing the excitement surrounding sightings of a colossal sea creature reported by various ships across the oceans.  
  Professor Aronnax, who has just returned from a scientific expedition, becomes engrossed in the heated debate over the creature's existence. He decides to join the U.S. expedition aboard the frigate Abraham Lincoln, along with his companions Conseil and Ned Land, as they pursue the supposed monster. Tension builds as they prepare for their confrontation, creating a sense of suspense and wonder about what lies beneath the ocean's depths.

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  The Top 10 Poets – The Love...

  Christina Georgina Rossetti,...

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  The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives.  Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives. 
   
  But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poets, who brim with talent and verse, on a range of subjects and themes that we can all enjoy. 
   
  Each and every one of us has attempted the feat - to express our feelings on love is one of the joys, or heartaches, of life.  In this volume 10 poets add their immortal words on love.  Some are tender, some are strident, some beguile with unknown words and play but always, always in tones of love.  Genius in every name.

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