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  Return of Sherlock Holmes The...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Return of Sherlock Holmes is set three years after the detective fell to his death in the Reichenbach Falls in his final struggle with Moriarty. Or did he? In the first story of the series Holmes explains to Watson what really happened that day, followed by twelve more adventures of the dynamic duo including two of Doyle's own favourite stories: The Dancing Men and The Second Stain. Other notable characters in this book include Black Peter and Charles Augustus Milverton.  - Summary by Beth ThomasWatson: Cori SamuelHolmes: Beth ThomasVarious: Jason MillsLestrade: SavannahLestrade: Alex BoguesVarious: Amanda FridayVarious: Eden Rea-HedrickVarious: Frances BrownVarious: Tom CrawfordVarious: Kimberley KrauseVarious: KHandVarious: Levi ThrockmortonVarious: MarcyTVarious: WoollyBeeVarious: phillbertyVarious: Julia NiedermaierVarious: Etel BussEdited by Kimberly Krause

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  Fifty Shades of December - 50 of...

  Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Scawen...

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  Once more the year begins.  The first month of the Gregorian calendar. Cold winds howl, the landscape shivers, frost, snow, ice are the many blankets for the land.  Daylight is thin, it arrives late and leaves early ceding the hours to shadow and the ink of night. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of December - An Introduction 
  2 - Ode Written on The First of December by Robert Southey 
  3 - A Calender Of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  4 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For the Year - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 
  5 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  6 - Before Winter by Edith Nesbit 
  7 - December Matins by Alfred Austin 
  8 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 
  9 - Some Too Fragile For Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  10 - Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  11 - On the Death of Major Whitefoord, December 15th 1825 by Eliza Acton 
  12 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  13 - To the Memory of Mrs Lefroy Who Died December 16th, My Birthday by Jane Austen 
  14 - Sonnet 6 - Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface by William Shakespeare 
  15 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  16 - It is Winter by Daniel Sheehan 
  17 - Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  18 - Gloomily the Clouds Are Sailing by Anne Bronte 
  19 - December by John Bannister Tabb 
  20 - Eden In Winter by Vachal Lindsay 
  21 - To A Lady Who Presented to the Author A Lock of Hair Braided with Her Own and Appointed a Night in December To Meet Him in the Garden by Lord Byron 
  22 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit 
  23 - My Winter Rose by Alfred Austin 
  24 - To Flowers from Italy by Thomas Hardy 
  25 - Sicily. December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke 
  26 - Lachin y Gair by Lord Byron 
  27 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  28 - Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  29 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  30 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
  31 - Winter by Robert Southey 
  32 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke 
  33 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  34 - December the 23rd 1879 by George MacDonald 
  35 - A Christmas Carol by Samual Taylor Coleridge 
  36 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 
  37 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 
  38 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 
  39 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  40 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 
  41 - Minstrels.  A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 
  42 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland 
  43 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 
  44 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  45 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 
  46 - The Farm Woman's Winter by Thomas Hardy 
  47 - December the 27th 1879 by George MacDonald 
  48 - A New Years Eve in Wartime by Thomas Hardy 
  49 - At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy 
  50 - Ring Out Wild Bells.  Christmas Poem by Alfred lord Tennyson 
  51 - Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns

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  The Changing Room (NHB Modern...

  Chris Bush

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  Set in and around a swimming pool, Chris Bush's play The Changing Room follows a group of teenagers full of excitement, impatience and uncertainty. They know change is coming, but not what it'll look like.
  Written specifically for young people, The Changing Room was part of the 2018 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK. It offers opportunities for a large, flexible cast of any size or mix of genders, and incorporates chorus work and music. No swimming pool required.

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  Faust ( First Part)

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  Goethe’s Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephisto and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.

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  1972: The Future of Sex (NHB...

  Ensemble The Wardrobe

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  It's 1972. An era of possibility and polyester and pubic hair.
  Ziggy Stardust is on Top of the Pops, Penny is writing an essay on Lady Chatterley's Lover and Christine is watching Deepthroat. Brian is confused. Our parents are 20 and they're having sex.
  The Wardrobe Ensemble's play 1972: The Future of Sex is a 90-minute romp through the ins and outs of those excellently awkward first sexual encounters. Devised by the company, the show uses The Wardrobe Ensemble's trademark inventive theatricality, irreverent humour and spectacular ensemble moments to tell the story of three couples having sex for the first time in 1972.
  1972: The Future of Sex was first staged by The Wardrobe Ensemble at Latitude Festival and Shoreditch Town Hall in 2015, before playing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
  '[Has an] emotional underpinning that turns an entertaining romp full of spot-on period detail into something deeper and more poignant' - Guardian

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  Damon Runyon Theater - A Story...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into a black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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