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  The Worshippers of Work and...

  Pabitra Adhikary

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  A collection of poetry by Pabitra Adhikary

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  Poets of 19th Century America...

  Various Authors, Walt Whitman,...

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  America.  Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.  Across its vast landscape a Nation was being built.  Expanded into its vast frontiers by military force and financial acquisitions; this was a melting pot of peoples and ideas gathering to form an identity.  In these volumes we take a particular interest in the poets of the 19th Century and their views as their young nation came to terms with itself and its place in the World.

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  Pandora's Box

  Frank Wedekind

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  Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". G. W. Pabst directed a silent film version (Pandora's Box), which was loosely based on the play, in 1929. Both plays together also formed the basis for the opera Lulu by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937). In the original manuscript, dating from 1894, the 'Lulu' drama was in five acts and subtitled 'A Monster Tragedy'. Wedekind subsequently divided the work into two plays: Earth Spirit (German: Erdgeist, first printed in 1895) and Pandora's Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora). It is now customary in theatre performances to run the two plays together, in abridged form, under the title Lulu. Wedekind is known to have taken his inspiration from at least two sources: the pantomime Lulu by Félicien Champsaur, which he saw in Paris in the early 1890s, and the sex murders of Jack the Ripper in London in 1888. The premiere of Pandora's Box, a restricted performance due to difficulties with the censor, took place in Nuremberg on 1 February 1904. The 1905 Viennese premiere, again restricted, was instigated by the satirist Karl Kraus. In Vienna Lulu was played by Tilly Newes, later to become Wedekind's wife, with the part of Jack the Ripper played by Wedekind himself. (Summary by Wikipedia)CastLulu: Amanda FridayAlva Schon: Chuck WilliamsonSchigolch: Alan MapstoneRodrigo Quast/Kungu Poti: WupperhippoAlfred Hugenberg: Charlotte DuckettCountess Geschwitz: Caprisha PageBianetta/Kadidia: Sally McLudmilla Steinherz/Narrator: Elizabeth KlettMagelone: Margaret EspaillatCount Casti Piani: Algy PugPuntschu: Alan WeymanHeilmann/Dr. Hilti: balaBob: rookieblueDetective: Grendel B. LightyearJack: Bob GonzalezAudio editing: Chuck Williamson

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  Under A Scottish Sky

  Pamela Q. Fernandes

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  Seeking stars, finding love! 
  Michelle Reyes is a strong, guilt-ridden woman. Traveling as a nurse from her home in Manila to a beautiful town in Scotland to see the stars, she meets Adrian. He's the son of her patient. 
  Adrian maybe arrogant, unforgiving and cruel but she learns he's a hurricane and she can't help herself falling deeply in love with him. 
  But is Adrian more than he appears to be? 
  A multicultural contemporary romance novella set in Scotland.

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  The Living Room

  Graham Greene

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  London in the 1950s. A mysterious house, home to a family that has seen better days, will not yield its secrets. And a love affair turns to tragedy... Greene, one of the foremost writers of the 20th century, based the play on his own passionate but doomed affairs, and his conflicted view of Catholicism.Includes an interview with one of the world’s  foremost biographers of Graham Greene, Dr. Norman Sherry.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring W. Morgan Sheppard, Julian Sands, Kirsten Potter, Samantha Robson, Jane Carr and Judy Geeson.

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  Travesty (NHB Modern Plays)

  Liam Williams

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  'Why have you Googled "average couple how often sex UK"?'
  Ben doesn't even like Anna that much. She doesn't take life seriously enough. And then a couple of years go by and he's in absolute floods and she just wishes things could be different.
  This is a play about gender, the ethical dimensions of modern love, and a mandatory sillier third theme to make the whole thing seem less serious, in this case lemon tart.
  Travesty is the debut play by Liam Williams, double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and the 'voice of a generation' (Independent). It was produced by Fight in the Dog and premiered at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
  'The Fringe's most articulate and original chronicler of twenty-something angst' Telegraph

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