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  The Unexpected Man

  Yasmina Reza

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  Sir David Suchet and Dame Harriet Walter star in Yasmina Reza’s The Unexpected Man, translated by Christopher Hampton. A notorious author shares a train compartment with a long-time reader. But can they connect with each other through a silent tide of self-doubt and second-guessing?Includes and interview with cast members Sir David Suchet and Dame Harriet Walter.An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Sir David Suchet and Dame Harriet Walter.

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  Slepa pegica časa Blind Spot of...

  Milan Dekleva

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  "The poem is controlled silence", wrote Milan Dekleva in his 1990s collection "Preseženi človek" (Out-lived man). This poetic paradox, that has existed from the very beginning of Dekleva's writings and persisted through the three and a half decades of his experimentation in various genres and linguistic situations (including not only fourteen books of poetry but also prose fiction, plays and essays) and indeed remains today, did not emerge from nothing.
  Dekleva's story is also the story of poetic modernity as it lurks within the metamorphosis of world and Slovenian literature. Dekleva's dialogue with modernity remains a creative conflict with his ancestors, the battle of the poet for self-recognition, for the word that will articulate the uniqueness of his world. What is central to Dekleva's texts – and this can only be said with the benefit of hindsight – also corresponds with the spatial-temporal coordinates of their emergence: with the conceptual-aesthetic, and perhaps even with the ideological-political, conditions of the decades following the Second World War, which is to say through the filter of the poet's individual reason, gaze, and desire. The transition from the 1960s to the 1970s was not only a period that marked the beginning of Dekleva's poetic formation, but also a period of turbulent social happenings, dramatic debates and actions. Dekleva is the poet of the "disenchanted world" and is thus linked to "the twilight of the idols" in which not even the Word of the poet, understood in the old metaphysical way, has been spared.

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  There Are No Beginnings (NHB...

  Charley Miles

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  This is not a story about the Yorkshire Ripper.
  It's 1975 and Sharon just wants to marry Donny Osmond. Her mum, June, is working to keep girls like Helen off the street, and Fiona is desperate to get inside the Milgarth Police Station incident room.
  Between the years of 1975 and 1980, the women of Leeds lived in fear. With no clue as to who was responsible for the sustained attacks and murders across the city, the authorities urged women to stay at home. From the fear and fury, a steadfast solidarity arose, birthing the Reclaim the Night movement and echoing down the generations to this day.
  Charley Miles's play There Are No Beginnings was premiered at Leeds Playhouse in October 2019, in a production featuring Julie Hesmondhalgh.

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  The Fever Syndrome

  Alexis Zegerman

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  Professor Richard Myers, now in his 70s and suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease, is about to receive a lifetime achievement award for his work in the development of in-vitro fertilization. That calls for a family reunion, and given this high-functioning, dysfunctional family, there’s bound to be trouble ahead. As they gather, old resentments erupt as they fight over Richard’s legacy while facing another family member’s serious illness. 
   
  Incudes a conversation with playwright Alexis Zegerman. 
   
  This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in December 2023. 
   
  Directed by Sarah Drew 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording, starring: 
   
  Hugo Armstrong as Professor Richard Myers 
  Seamus Dever as Thomas Myers 
  Sarah Drew as the voice of Karen 
  Patrick Heusinger as Anthony Myers 
  Kelly McCreary as Dot Myers-Cooper 
  Monica McSwain as Lily Cooper and Young Dot 
  Matthew Floyd Miller as Nate Cooper 
  Desean K. Terry as Phillip Tennyson 
  Joanne Whalley as Megan Myers. 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for audio by Mark Holden. 
  Recorded, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll, and edited by Neil Wogensen for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. 
  Piano music and musical characters adapted and performed by Rusty Tinder, recorded by Charles Carroll, and Directed by Mark Holden. 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez

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  Down the Line

  Pam Ayres

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  After a forty+ years career, and ten years on since Pam Ayres’ last live recordings were released on CD, Pam’s latest audiobook brings together two recent live recordings of her solo stage shows, one at London’s Cadogan Hall, and the other at the Regent Centre, Christchurch, which was recorded in 2019.  Pam introduces each recording, and then as a bonus, reads many of her poems which have not been previously recorded, from her two most recent books, You Made Me Late Again and Up In The Attic. With poems such as "My Mother Was Right About You", "Geriatric Juliet", "Poor Old Father Christmas", and "The Hat From Hell", blending Pam’s characteristically sharp wit with her warm, comic observations on everyday life, this hilariously funny collection is a must have for seasoned fans and first time listeners alike.   It also includes some of Pam’s more reflective poems including the title poem, "Down the Line", which she wrote for the 100th Anniversary of the end of the First World War.

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  The Comedy of Errors

  William Shakespeare

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  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.

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