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  The Prisoner (NHB Modern Plays)

  Brook Peter, Marie-Hélène Estienne

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  Somewhere in the world, a man sits alone outside a prison. Who is he, and why is he there? Is it a choice, or a punishment?
  With The Prisoner, the internationally renowned theatre director Peter Brook and his long-time collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne ask provocative and profound questions about justice, guilt, redemption – and what it means to be free.
  The Prisoner opened at Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, in March 2018, before an international tour which included performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, the National Theatre of Great Britain, and Theatre for a New Audience in New York.
  'The most pioneering theatre director of the twentieth century' Independent on Peter Brook
  'Only its mystery equals the simplicity of this strange fable' - Le Monde
  'The force of the show lies precisely in its ellipses, the empty spaces it offers to our emotions, sensations and to our intelligence' - Télérama
  'During one hour and fifteen minutes, the Earth stops spinning at its maddening speed, to allow Brook to whisper in our ear one of his beautiful universal stories' - Les Echoes
  'The work of an artist for whom the human heart has no secrets and who knows the revealing and consoling force of theatre' - Le Figaroscope

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  There Are No Beginnings (NHB...

  Charley Miles

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  This is not a story about the Yorkshire Ripper.
  It's 1975 and Sharon just wants to marry Donny Osmond. Her mum, June, is working to keep girls like Helen off the street, and Fiona is desperate to get inside the Milgarth Police Station incident room.
  Between the years of 1975 and 1980, the women of Leeds lived in fear. With no clue as to who was responsible for the sustained attacks and murders across the city, the authorities urged women to stay at home. From the fear and fury, a steadfast solidarity arose, birthing the Reclaim the Night movement and echoing down the generations to this day.
  Charley Miles's play There Are No Beginnings was premiered at Leeds Playhouse in October 2019, in a production featuring Julie Hesmondhalgh.

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  Counting Descent

  Clint Smith

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  Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences. Smith brings the reader on a powerful journey forcing us to reflect on all that we learn growing up, and all that we seek to unlearn moving forward.

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  The Tempest

  William Shakespeare

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  One of Shakespeare's late romances, The Tempest centres on the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who initially uses his magical powers to punish his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore. The entire play takes place on an island under his control whose native inhabitants, Ariel and Caliban, respectively aid or hinder his work.

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  The Poetry of Laurence Binyon

  Laurence Binyon

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  Robert Laurence Binyon, CH, was born on 10th August 1869 in Lancaster in Lancashire, England to Quaker parents, Frederick Binyon and Mary Dockray. 
  He studied at St Paul's School, London before enrolling at Trinity College, Oxford, to read classics. 
  Binyon’s first published work was Persephone in 1890.  As a poet, his output was not prodigious and, in the main, the volumes he did publish were slim, but his reputation was of the highest order. When the Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, died in 1913, Binyon was considered alongside Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling for the post which was eventually given to Robert Bridges. 
  Binyon played a pivotal role in helping to establish the modernist School of poetry and introduced imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) to East Asian visual art and literature. Most of his career was spent at The British Museum where he produced many books particularly on the art of the Far East. 
  Moved and shaken by the onset of the World War I and its military tactics of young men slaughtered to hold or gain a few yards of shell-shocked mud Binyon wrote his seminal poem For the Fallen. It became an instant classic, turning moments of great loss into a National and human tribute. 
  After the war, he returned to the British Museum and wrote numerous books on art; especially on William Blake, Persian and Japanese art. 
  In 1931, his two volume Collected Poems appeared and in 1933, he retired from the British Museum. 
  Between 1933 and 1943, Binyon published his acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in an English version of terza rima. 
  During the Second World War Binyon wrote another poetic masterpiece 'The Burning of the Leaves', about the London Blitz. 
  Robert Laurence Binyon died in Dunedin Nursing Home, Bath Road, Reading, on March 10th, 1943 after undergoing an operation. 
   This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing.  Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.

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  Hobson's Choice

  Harold Brighouse

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  Willie Mossop has an uncanny ability at shoemaking, but not much else. Teamed with shrewd businesslady and daughter of the town's leading cobbler, Maggie Hobson, the couple disrupt her father's life. As they rise to success and the other Hobson daughters are married off, Willie and Maggie make the best of their situation in this delightful classic, English country comedy. 
   STARRING: BAIBRE DOWLING as Maggie Hobson, IAN ABERCROMBIE as Henry Hobson, JAMES LANCASTER as Willie Mossop, KATHLEEN FREEEMAN as Mrs. Wepworth, RICHARD ERDMAN as Fred Beenstock, SEAN McCLORY as Dr. MacFarlane, LINDA HENNING as Ada Figgins, ELLIOTT REID as Jim Heeler, LEON ADAMS as Albert Prosser, TOM WILLIAMS as Tubby Wardlow, CORNELIA HAYS O'HERLIHY as Vicky Hobson, FRANCISCA BEACH as Alice Hobson; AND and CART's Announcer,  JOHN HARLAN.

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