Other books that might interest you

• 

  Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist

  Chris Bush, Matt Winkworth

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  As winter's first snow falls, there's not much Christmas cheer in Sherwood Forest. Cupboards are bare, the nights are cold, and the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham squeezes his citizens for every penny they're worth.
  But deep in the forest, in the heart of the Major Oak, Robin and Marian are plotting an audacious scheme to bring some festive joy to all…
  This charming retelling of the Robin Hood legend by Chris Bush, with music by Matt Winkworth, was first performed at Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, in 2024, directed by Elin Schofield.
  Robin Hood and the Christmas Heist was commissioned by the Rose to be performed by members of the Rose Youth Theatre alongside four professional adult actors – and offers a wealth of opportunities for other theatre companies who want a merry Christmas classic that hits the target.

  Show book

• 

  The Cherry Orchard

  Anton Chekhov, Julius West

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The highly acclaimed Russian classic of twentieth-century theatre about a wealthy family unable to let go of the past or face the future. At the turn of the century, Russia is undergoing massive changes. Feudalism has ended, the middle class is growing, and the aristocracy are uncertain of their future . . .  The cherry orchard on the Ranevskaya grounds is known throughout the country for its beauty, but it now sits on the brink of ruin. The entire estate is headed for auction if the family cannot pay off their debts. The land’s fate lies in the hands of the family’s matriarch, Madame Ranevskaya, recently returned from five years in Paris where she wasted away much of her fortunes.  Neither Ranevskaya nor anyone else in her household can fathom the gravity of the situation. But a merchant, the son of a former serf on the land, has an idea . . .  Written in 1903, The Cherry Orchard premiered in Moscow in 1904. It was Chekhov’s last play before his death that same year. Since then, the work has been translated and adapted into numerous languages and performed around the world.

  Show book

• 

  Rhyme A Dozen A - Music - 12...

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rainer...

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  01 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Music - An Introduction 
  02 - Music's Empire by Andrew Marvell 
  03 - Music When Soft Voices Die by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  04 - If Music Be the Food of Love by William Shakespeare 
  05 - Power of Music by William Wordsworth 
  06 - The Strange Music by G K Chesterton 
  07 - For Music by Lord Byron 
  08 - To Music by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  09 - On Music by Thomas Moore 
  10 - Music by Wilfred Owen 
  11 - To Music, To Becalm His Fever by Robert Herrick 
  12 - The Musicians by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  13 - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

  Show book

• 

  Poets on Poets - Famous poets...

  Thomas Hood, Alice Meynell,...

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Writing poetry always seems to be something we learn at school, usually beginning with a couplet of child-like rhyme that brings gales of laughter.  Later it may be agonising over a verse or two attempting to rhapsodise on love and then the years roll on with only an occasional desire to return.   
   
  In this volume we put together wordsmiths of the highest caliber as they write on Poets themselves.  Many of the poems provide valuable insights on how other poets are seen by their peers.  Some are deeply personal others are abstract.  Whether they speak at the celebration of a birth or the knowing tragedy of entering a slaughterous battle these poets take us into new uncharted territories revealing their inner selves in raw and tender ways. 
   
  Yeats, Flecker, Benet, Yeats, Dickinson, Coleridge, Millay, Levy, Gurney are but a few of their number who speak with the clarity, the eloquence and the truth that only a poet can know….but all can share. 
   
  01 - Poets on Poets - An Introduction 
  02 - A Caution to Poets by Matthew Arnold 
  03 - To a Poet by Emily Hickey 
  04 - To a Poet by Alice Meynell 
  05 - To a Poet by Claude McKay 
  06 - To Poets by Charles Sorley 
  07 - The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin 
  08 - The Poet by Radclyffe Hall 
  09 - The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  10 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell 
  11 - Sonnet VII - Sweet Poet of the Woods by Charlotte Smith 
  12 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen 
  13 - False Poets and True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood 
  14 - On Dryden by Christopher Caudwell 
  15 - On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson 
  16 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne 
  17 - The Poets by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  18 - The Toast by Ernest Rhys 
  19 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet 
  20 - To Alex Smith, the Glasgow Poet by George Meredith 
  21 - The Peasant Poet by John Clare 
  22 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  23 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson 
  24 - A Poet's Hope by Ambrose Bierce 
  25 - The Poet's Portion by Thomas Hood 
  26 - Poets by Khalil Gibran 
  27 - The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes 
  28 - A Tale of the Miser and His Poet by Anne Kingsmill Finch 
  29 - The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant by William Cowper 
  30 - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad by Robert Herrick 
  31 - Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson 
  32 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell 
  33 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds  by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  34 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats 
  35 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell 
  36 - To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker 
  37 - The Young Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
  38 - Portrait of the Author by William Carlos Williams 
  39 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell 
  40 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell 
  37 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce 
  42 - A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns 
  43 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson 
  44 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
  45 - The Martyr Poets - Did Not Tell by Emily Dickinson 
  46 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword 
  47 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon 
  48 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys 
  49 - To the Poet Before Battle by Ivor Gurney 
  50 - The Poets Are Waiting by Harold Munro 
  51 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  52 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler 
  53 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas 
  54 - This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson 
  55 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy 
  56 - The Old Poet by James Elroy Flecker 
  57 - The

  Show book

• 

  The Comedy of Errors

  William Shakespeare

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's earliest and shortest plays. This comedy utilizes slapstick humor, word play, and mistaken identities to create a series of farcical accidents. Over time, the play's title has become an idiom used to describe "an event or series of events made ridiculous by the number of errors that were made throughout."
  In Ephesus, the law forbids entry to any merchants from Syracuse, and if they are discovered within the city, they must pay a thousand marks or be put to death. Aegeon, an old Syracusian merchant, is arrested and Solinus, the Duke of Ephesus, listens to his story of coming to the city. Long ago, Aegeon was on a sea voyage. Traveling with him was his wife, his twin sons, and their twin slaves. The family becomes separated during a tempest; Aegeon, one son, and one slave were rescued together, and the others were never to be seen again. Years later his son Antipholus and his slave Dromio left to search for their long lost siblings; after the boys didn't return, Aegeon set out to bring his son back home. Moved by this story, the duke allows Aegeon one day to get the money to pay his fine and to find his family.

  Show book

• 

  A Young Boy Named David Book 22

  David M. Smith

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The “Young Boy Named David” series is designed to help young people deal with difficult situations that are hard to talk about and adults reconnect to their disconnected childhood helping heal broken pasts. In Book 22, the very real and pressing issue of guns enters David's life. He learns a lesson about this that will definitely help our young ones growing up in this crazy world.

  Show book