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  The Ragged Trousered...

  Robert Tressell

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  Passionate, highly entertaining and gloriously funny - Robert Tressell's classic pre-First World War account of the working lives of a group of housepainters and decorators is vividly adapted by Howard Brenton.
  The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists recounts the little daily successes and the disasters of a group of working-class men, living under the constant fear of being laid off by employers forever looking for new corners to cut. Both workers and bosses are caught in a system spiralling out of control, but why is it the workers always come out worse?
  Howard Brenton's stage adaptation lays bare the many social injustices perpetrated on these men whilst capturing their individual characters with touching truth to life.
  'Speaks with passion and eloquence' - Guardian
  'Sparkles with so much wit and integrity it is impossible not to warm to the ethos that lies at its very core.' - Stage
  'Wisely, Howard Brenton has shown confidence in Tressell's original story and has concentrated on creating a piece of theatre without compromising the impact of the original text...Brenton has produced the definitive stage version.' - Amateur Stage

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  Abandonment (NHB Modern Plays)

  Kate Atkinson

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  A play about love, death, identity and evolution, from the best-selling and highly acclaimed novelist. Elizabeth, forty-something, childless, recently separated, just wants to be alone. She's moved into a converted Victorian mansion, alive with history, character, woodworm and rot. But worse than that she's besieged by invaders of the human kind. Her best friend, her sister, their mother, the builder and a photographer are all determined to make their mark. And a former inhabitant of the house, disturbed from her resting place by Elizabeth's arrival, revisits her own long-forgotten past. 'Atkinson has arrived at theatrical customs with a huge amount to declare' -Guardian 'Witty, intelligent and absorbing... terrific comic dialogue' -Scotsman

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  The Domino Effect and other...

  Fin Kennedy

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  This second volume of plays from award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy features three ensemble plays for large casts of young people aged thirteen to nineteen, each developed via a long-term, collaborative process with the target age group.
  In The Dream Collector, a school group on a Media Studies field trip to the isolated country house of a black-and-white movie pioneer enter a sinister dreamworld when they go exploring after dark. Once they step through the movie screen, each of the young friends meets their dream double, the sinister Neverborn...
  In Fast, a twenty-four-hour school fundraiser in a semi-rural town takes on a new urgency when farmer's daughter Cara refuses to eat again until the supermarkets she holds responsible for her father's suicide agree to her demands.
  In The Domino Effect – a five-star hit at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – a silent girl finds her voice, and her mother, when a mysterious East End antiques dealer teaches her how small actions lead to big effects, and how to master the law of unintended consequences.
  With their flexible, mixed casts, the plays are particularly suited to performance by young people's groups, who will enjoy the demands and challenges of playing roles specifically created for teenage actors.

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  Short Story Press Presents...

  Short Story Press, Holly Williford

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  “Hello, my name is Aura Smith; we are here to take you back to your time. I do not exactly why you think killing, what was his name again… oh yes, Stalin was a great idea, but you can’t just go around fixing things like that. Without Stalin the world would have been a very different place, you see. I understand he was evil for whatever the historical context is, but we just can’t go altering all the bad things in history. The Fates do not like it. Not to mention it completely unravels time, so that there is no existence anymore. So it’s important that you do not try to do this again or I’ll be back to take you back to your time again. 
  “Why don’t you have a seat and I’ll make you a drink while I take you back to your time? I understand wanting to fix seemingly terrible events, and actually recently just tried to alter something minor myself. It wasn’t a historical figure or anything like that. They probably wouldn’t even have noticed, and I am not quite sure yet how they found out. I’m actually going to find out my punishment afternoon. I think I’ll have a drink as well.” 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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  Eve Of Ides - An Audioplay Of...

  David Blixt

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  Step into the gripping world of intrigue and betrayal with "Eve Of Ides," an immersive audio drama that delves into the untold story behind the night preceding Julius Caesar's fateful assassination. Join Caesar, Brutus, and Antony at a feast where secrets are unveiled, and destinies are sealed. 
  March 14, 44 BC. Elected Dictator of Rome, Caesar is about to embark on a new war in the East to avenge an old friend. With just one meeting of the Senate standing between him and his foes, Caesar attends a farewell dinner. Unknown to him, several of the guests are plotting to end his life. Among them is Brutus, who is deeply conflicted about the plan, struggling with both morality and mortality. As the tension rises, Antony poses the question of the best way to meet one's end. Caesar's poignant response, "What does it matter, so long as it's quick?" sets the stage for a journey that intertwines history with Shakespeare, delving into the unexplored relationships between the key players of the age – Caesar, Brutus, and Antony. 
  "Eve Of Ides" brings history to life, captivating audiences with a riveting narrative. Featuring stellar performances by Edward Gero as Caesar, Robert Kauzlaric as Brutus, and David Blixt as Mark Antony, supported by an exceptional cast including Ian Geers, John Lepard, Sam Hubbard, and Janice L Blixt. Directed by the talented Robert Kauzlaric, this audio drama promises an unforgettable journey into the heart of power, politics, and the human condition. Don't miss the chance to experience history in its most vivid and dramatic form!

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  Door in the Mountain: New and...

  Jean Valentine

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  This National Book Award–winning volume presents nearly forty years of the renowned poet’s work. Between 1965 and 2003, Jean Valentine published nine critically acclaimed collections of poetry, including Dream Barker(winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award), Ordinary Things, and The River at Wolf. Spare and intensely-felt, Valentine’s poems present experience as only imperfectly graspable. This volume gathers together all of Valentine's published poems, presenting them alongside a stunning new collection.  Valentine’s poetry is as recognizable as the slant truth of a dream. She is a brave, unshirking poet who speaks with fire on the great subjects―love, and death, and the soul. Her images―strange, canny visions of the unknown self―clang with the authenticity of real experience. This is an urgent art that wants to heal what it touches, a poetry that wants to tell, intimately, the whole life.

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