Publisher: KenWrites
This play is about a California family. Mr. Morgan is a widower with two daughters – Joy and Tracey, who are hot tempered and find it hard to get along most times. While Joy works hard at becoming a successful writer, Tracey is all party, fun and sex till she gets impregnated by Jim, her boyfriend........
Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades. When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in Heaven Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays – on the sponsors dime of course. Classic films now become audiobooks with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Algiers with Hedy Lamarr & Charles Boyer.Show book
In the tradition of classic radio plays, with a full cast, music, sound effects, all digitally recorded, the award winning Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air is proud to present this spectacular production - "ALABAMA!" - the story of the famed Confederate Warship and scourge of the Union shipping fleet during the American Civil War. Built in secrecy for the Confederate States Navy in England, she captures or burns 65 Union vessels and takes more than 2000 prisoners in her short career - which comes to an end off the coast of Cherbourg, France, when she encounters the USS Kearsarge.Show book
'The sky turns the colour of a jay's eye. The sea turns a deep royal purple. The mist lifts in quick, lithe ribbons, like a conjuring trick. Before us lies the island…' It's 1935, and an eccentric English family – four children, their widowed mother, and Roger the dog – arrives on the sun-soaked shores of Corfu to start a new life. For eleven-year-old Gerry Durrell, the extraordinary landscape provides the perfect playground. Its exotic fauna inspires a life-long fascination with the animal kingdom – and his much-loved memoir My Family and Other Animals. Janys Chambers' acclaimed stage adaptation was first seen at York Theatre Royal, and invites other theatre companies to make ingenious and inventive decisions, bringing to life all the inhabitants of Durrell's cherished island – whether they walk and talk, fly and squawk, crawl or swim or slither. 'Simply a delight... The play's triumph is in the way it captures the exuberance of youth and the strangeness of the new culture that Gerald and his family find themselves in... it's there in Janys Chambers' adaptation, which keeps chunks of Durrell's evocative prose while adding some wonderfully funny embellishments' - The Stage 'Durrell gets the revival he deserves... it fairly fizzes with life' - Daily Mail 'Weaves the poetic, wide-eyed prose of Gerald Durrell's childhood memoir into a really charming and fun play' - WhatsonstageShow book
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2011.Show book
Wallace James Stevens was born on October 2nd, 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father, a lawyer, sent Wallace to Harvard as a non-degree special student, after which he moved to New York City and worked briefly as a journalist. From there he attended New York Law School and graduated in 1903. On a trip home to Reading in 1904 Stevens met Elsie Viola Kachel, a saleswoman, milliner, and stenographer. After working for several New York law firms he was hired in January 1908, as a lawyer for the American Bonding Company. After a 6 year courtship Wallace and Elsie married in 1909 over the objections of his parents. For Wallace it was a seismic event; he never spoke to his father again. By 1914 Wallace had become the vice-president of the New York office of the Equitable Surety Company of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1916, he joined Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and they moved to Hartford. His work was full-time and time for his poetry writing was in short supply. From January 1922 made several business several visits to Key West, Florida. "The place is a paradise," he wrote to Elsie, "midsummer weather, the sky brilliantly clear and intensely blue, the sea blue and green beyond what you have ever seen." In 1923 ‘Harmonium’ was published. At last, at age 38, he was an overnight success. His career was not prodigious in quantity but its quality was exceptional. In March 1955 Wallace underwent various medical tests and an operation which resulted in a diagnosis of stomach cancer. He travelled in early June to receive honorary Doctorates at Hartford and Yale. Wallace was readmitted on July 21st to St. Francis Hospital where his condition deteriorated. Wallace Stevens died on the 2nd August 1955 at the age of 75. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems in 1955. - 1 - The Poetry of Wallace Stevens - An Introduction 2 - Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens 3 - Six Significant Landscapes by Wallace Stevens 4 - Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens 5 - Two Figures in Dense Violet Light by Wallace Stevens 6 - In The Carolinas by Wallace Stevens 7 - Last Looks at the Lilacs by Wallace Stevens 8 - Gray Room by Wallace Stevens 9 - Tea At the Palaz of Hoon by Wallace Stevens 10 - Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion by Wallace Stevens 11 - Domination of Black by Wallace Stevens 12 - Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks by Wallace Stevens 13 - Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens 14 - Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens 15 - Phases by Wallace Stevens 16 - Metaphors of a Magnifico by Wallace Stevens 17 - Frogs Eat Butterflies, snakes Eat Frogs, Hogs Eat Snakes, Men Eat Hogs by Wallace Stevens 18 - The Worm's At Heaven's Gate by Wallace Stevens 19 - Tattoo by Wallace Stevens 20 - Another Weeping Woman by Wallace Stevens 21 - The High-toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens 22 - To the One of Fictive Music by Wallace Stevens 23 - Peter Quince at the Clavier by Wallace Stevens 24 - The Emperor of Ice Cream by Wallace Stevens 25 - The Wind Shifts by Wallace Stevens 26 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 27 - Nomad Exquisite by Wallace Stevens 28 - The Comedian as the Letter C by Wallace StevensShow book
Very few playwrights can be identified from a single line of dialogue – debbie tucker green is one of them. This collection of her first six plays, together with a short introduction by the author, shows a dramatic artist in full control of her craft. born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003; winner of the Olivier Award for Best Newcomer) dives headlong into the heart of a conflicted family, unleashing wit, ferocity and verbal dexterity on the way. 'One of the most assured and extraordinary new voices we've heard in a long while. Electrifying' Independent on Sunday dirty butterfly (Soho Theatre, 2003) is a mesmerising study of voyeurism, power and guilt. 'There is a sly, controlled power in this writing… And now I cannot get it out of my head' Guardian generations (National Theatre Platform performance, 2005; Young Vic, 2007) follows three generations of a Black South African family comparing cooking skills – but food isn't the only topic and the family numbers are declining. 'Devastating… will last you a lifetime' Guardian stoning mary (Royal Court Theatre, 2005) confronts the reality of global conflicts, transposing them to the West. 'The words fly around the theatre piercing the dark like gleaming shards of shrapnel' The Stage trade (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2005) shines a light on the world of female sex tourism. 'Poetry laced with shards of broken glass' Guardian random (Royal Court Theatre, 2008) is set over one day, following one family and the effects of one random act of violence. 'The writing seems to penetrate the very heart of grief' Telegraph 'debbie tucker green uses language as deftly as a composer might use notes.' Financial TimesShow book
