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  The Unfriend - (West End edition)

  Steven Moffat

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  'We're dying of manners. We're under siege from personal embarrassment. This is not sane. This is not rational. That woman is a monster!'
  While on holiday, Peter and Debbie befriend Elsa: a lusty, Trump-loving widow from Denver, USA. She's less than woke but kind of wonderful. They agree to stay in touch – because no one ever really does, do they?
  When Elsa invites herself to stay a few months later, they decide to look her up online. Too late, they learn the truth about Elsa Jean Krakowski. Deadly danger has just boarded a flight to London! But how do you protect all that you love from mortal peril without seeming, well, a bit impolite? Because guess who's coming... to murder!
  Steven Moffat's play The Unfriend takes a hilarious and satirical look at middle-class England's disastrous instinct always to appear nice. It was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2022, before transferring to London's West End – first to the Criterion Theatre, then to Wyndham's – in 2023.
  Steven Moffat is an award-winning writer whose internationally successful television shows include Doctor Who, Sherlock and Dracula – the latter two co-written with actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who made his stage directorial debut with The Unfriend.

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  A Rare Recording of Lawrence...

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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  Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 - February 22, 2021), born in Yonkers, NY, was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. The following recording includes Ferlinghetti reading the poems, Baseball Canto, Travels in America Deserta, See It Was Like This When, and Underwear.

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  Tambo & Bones

  Dave Harris

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  'In today's world, errybody got a story.
  It's overwhelming. How! The humanity! O! Everywhere, someone appealing to yo sense of… empathy.'
  Tambo and Bones are stuck in a minstrel show. It's hard to know what's real when you're stuck in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get rich, get even.
  A daring theatrical exploration of the intersection of race, capitalism and performance, Dave Harris's play Tambo & Bones laughs through our past, blows the roof off our present, and imagines an explosive future for our world and for theatre.
  Tambo & Bones was commended in the 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, and was first performed in a co-production between Playwrights Horizons, New York City, and Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, in 2022. It was first produced in the UK in 2023 by Theatre Royal Stratford East, London, and Actors Touring Company, directed by Matthew Xia.

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  The Flatting-Mill

  William Cowper

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Flatting-Mill by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 1, 2011.William Cowper (pronounced "Cooper")was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him "the best modern poet", whilst William Wordsworth particularly admired his poem Yardley-Oak. He was a nephew of the poet Judith Madan. (summary from Wikipedia)

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  Born in the USA - The...

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily...

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  1 - Born in the USA - The Massachusetts Poets - An Introduction 
  2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr 
  3 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  4 - Beyond by Katharine Lee Bates 
  5 - Come Unto Me by Katherine Lee Bates 
  6 - Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves by William Stanley Braithwaite 
  7 - Hymn to the North Star by William Cullen Bryant 
  8 - Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant 
  9 - October by William Cullen Bryant 
  10 - The Death of Slavery by William Cullen Bryant 
  11 - Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - I Measure Every Grief by Emily Dickinson 
  13 - Where Roses Would Not Dare to Go by Emily Dickinson 
  14 - A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson 
  15 - This Was a Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - Credo by W E B Du Bois 
  17 - Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  18 - Letters by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  19 - Water by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  20 - A Nation's Strength by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  21 - Fate by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  22 - The Eyes of My Regret by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  23 - The Black Finger by Angelina Weld Grimke 
  24 - Tenebris by Angelina Weld Grimké 
  25 - In the Reading Room of the British Museum by Louise Imogen Guiney 
  26 - Forms of Heroes by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  27 - The Ocean by Nathamiel Hawthorne 
  28 - Address to the Moon by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  29 - The Old Man of the Sea by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  30 - Hymm for the Celebration at the Laying of the Cornerstone of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6th 1870 by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  31 - Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes 
  32 - A Calendar of Sonnets - February by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  33 - A Calender of Sonnets - May by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  34 - A Calender of Sonnets - November by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  35 - The Fir Tree and the Brook by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  36 - The Poet by Amy Lowell 
  37 - Meeting House Hill by Amy Lowell 
  38 - Madonna of the Evening Flowers by Amy Lowell 
  39 - Late September by Amy Lowell 
  40 - Lilacs by Amy Lowell 
  41 - Midnight by James Russell Lowell 
  42 - A Contrast by James Russell Lowell 
  43 - Winter Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  44 - Threnodia by James Russell Lowell 
  45 - A Requiem by James Russell Lowell 
  46 - To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe 
  47 - In Youth I Have Known One by Edgar Allan Poe 
  48 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 
  49 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 
  50 - Alone by Edgar Allan Poe 
  51 - Here by the Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage 
  52 - On the 10th October by Phillip Henry Savage 
  53 - November Blind by Phillip Henry Savage 
  54 - Casey at the Bat by Ernest L Thayer 
  55 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
  56 - Woof of the Sun by Henry David Thoreau 
  57 - Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  58 - What's the Railroad to Me by Henry David Thoreau 
  59 - A Day by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  60 - The Pumpkin by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  61 - The Hunters of Men by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  62 - The Farewell of a Virginia Slave Mother by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  63 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter

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  Henry IV

  Luigi Pirandello

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  Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello is a haunting and intellectually charged drama that probes the fragile boundaries between madness and sanity, illusion and truth, performance and reality. First staged in the early 20th century, this powerful play stands as one of Pirandello's most profound explorations of identity and the masks imposed by society.
  
  The story centers on a wealthy nobleman who, after a fall from his horse during a historical pageant, becomes convinced that he is the medieval German emperor Henry IV. For years, he lives in a carefully constructed illusion, surrounded by servants and attendants who sustain his belief by reenacting life in an 11th-century court. What begins as apparent madness soon unfolds into something far more complex. When old acquaintances visit in an attempt to cure him, long-buried tensions and hidden truths emerge, revealing that the line between delusion and reality may not be as clear as it seems.
  
  Pirandello masterfully transforms a seemingly simple premise into a deeply philosophical inquiry. Is the protagonist truly insane, or has he chosen his "madness" as a refuge from the pain and hypocrisy of the modern world? As the drama unfolds, layers of pretense are stripped away, exposing the roles each character plays—not only on the staged medieval court but in their own lives.
  
  Through sharp dialogue and psychological intensity, Henry IV challenges audiences to reconsider what defines reality. If society itself is built upon conventions and performances, can one form of illusion be more authentic than another? Pirandello suggests that identity is not fixed but constructed, shaped by memory, perception, and the expectations of others.
  
  The play's tension builds steadily toward a dramatic climax that underscores the tragic consequences of living between worlds—caught in the space where imagination and truth collide. Both intimate and intellectually daring, Henry IV combines emotional depth with philosophical complexity, reflecting Pirandello's enduring fascination with the instability of the self.
  
  A landmark of modern theatre, Henry IV continues to captivate readers and audiences with its penetrating insight into the human condition. Through its exploration of madness, choice, and the roles we inhabit, the play remains a timeless meditation on the masks we wear—and the truths we may fear to face.

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