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  Bracken Moor (NHB Modern Plays)

  Alexi Kaye Campbell

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  A boldly theatrical tale of grief and denial, set against the economic crisis of the 1930s.
  After years apart, two families come together to rediscover their lost friendship. Instead, they conjure up the spirit of a buried tragedy.
  Presented by the Tricycle Theatre and Shared Experience, Bracken Moor premiered in June 2013.

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  Cruising (NHB Modern Plays)

  Alecky Blythe

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  A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.
  Maureen is a pensioner in search of passion. After 33 blind dates, 12 cruises and one broken heart, she is still determined to find Mr Right. But when best friend Margaret beats her to the altar, Maureen has her doubts - is Margaret just on the rebound and, more importantly, will she lose her pension?
  Cruising was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2006 in a co-production with Recorded Delivery, using an innovative verbatim-theatre technique. The technique consists of recording interviews with real people, editing them and replicating them on stage in all their uncanny verisimilitude. The result is both disconcertingly comic and profoundly moving, as all the individual peculiarities of the 'characters' are scrupulously reproduced.
  Formed in 2003, Recorded Delivery's first show Come Out Eli won the Time Out Live Award for Best Production on the Fringe.
  'a heart-warming piece of theatre' - Metro
  'gloriously idiosyncratic dialogue, which even the most skilful writer would struggle to devise' - Time Out, Critics' Choice
  'both shocking and uncomfortable ... [Blythe] has discovered theatrical gold' - Daily Telegraph

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  Down

  Sarah Dowling

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  How can we carve private spaces from discarded publics?
   
  DOWN takes junk language – with cameos by Frank O’Hara, Frank Ocean, Aaliyah and the Temptations – and distresses it, building sonically dense poems that are caught between the poignancy and flatness of their source texts. Disorientation and defamiliarization yank fresh feeling from banal sentiments in this playful collection.
   
  ‘I’ve believed in Dowling’s poems for a long time with you. Or maybe you’re just now catching up to how the genius is working her machine on our minds? Gravity of letter in the word measured and dispensed with inimitable grace. The words are familiar, yes, but we get them again from this magnificent poet who is not going to let us just trample the smallest of them. I have tremendous respect for any poet who strives to be even half as great as Sarah Dowling.’
   
  —CAConrad
   
  ‘After all of the previous avant-garde’s perpetual rediscoveries of Gertrude Stein's formal innovations, Dowling reminds us that her best poetry was, above all, sexy. Where Dowling surpasses is in her recognition of the phatic, the emphatic, the obsessive understanding of the cultural syntax of infatuation. Everything in DOWN is palpably cloudy in its thick description: I am starstruck.’
   
  — Craig Dworkin

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  The Recruiting Officer - Full...

  George Farquhar

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  The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding.
  The Recruiting Officer is a Restoration Comedy with a real heart and soul.
  Captain Plume arrives in Shrewsbury to recruit new soldiers. He falls for Sylvia - against her father's wishes. Rather than be sent away, Sylvia disguises herself as a man and so learns more about Plume than he would really like.
  Edited and introduced by Simon Trussler.

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  Poetic Expressions My Love to...

  bernice

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  Inspirational poetry by bernice willis

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  The Odyssey

  Homer Homer

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  The Ancient Greek tale of Odysseus, cursed to wander the perilous world on his epic voyage home. The decade-long Trojan War has come to an end and Odysseus, the King of Ithaca instrumental in securing victory for the Greeks, finally sets sail for home. But his adventures are far from over. Cursed by the god Poseidon to wander the earth for ten years, he must battle monstrous creatures—even facing the land of the dead—before returning to Ithaca, where still more dangers await him. In his long absence, Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, have endured a violent crowd of suitors who occupied the royal palace.   Together with The Iliad, Homer’s epic poem of the Trojan War, The Odyssey is one of the oldest surviving works of Western literature. Samuel Butler’s beautiful English prose version, first appearing in 1900, remains one of the most beloved and acclaimed translations of this timeless tale.  This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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