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  Beached (NHB Modern Plays)

  Melissa Bubnic

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  Melissa Bubnic's Beached is a darkly funny comedy about modern freak shows, love and cream buns. Loads of cream buns.
  Arty is the world's fattest teenager. At sixty-seven stone, he is a young man literally going nowhere.
  All that is set to change when a reality TV crew moves in to ruthlessly document Arty's supposed transformation from bedridden walrus to trousered sophisticate.
  But with the cameras rolling, something totally unexpected happens – Arty falls in love.
  Beached had its British premiere at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, in 2014 before transferring to Soho Theatre, London. It won the 2010 Patrick White Playwrights Award at the Sydney Writers' Festival.
  'Funny but thoughtful... a moving and sensitive exploration of extreme obesity' - The Stage
  'Touching and sensitive... a satisfyingly chewy four-hander' - Evening Standard
  'A very funny, recognisable and hugely entertaining play' - Daily Telegraph Australia

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  Marvin's Room

  Scott McPherson

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  Good-hearted Bessie has been taking care of ther ailing father for 20 years, but now she’s the one who’s sick, and she must reconcile with her estranged sister, Lee. A remarkably humorous and tender play, this critically acclaimed family drama was dubbed by The New York Times as “one of the funniest plays of the year as well as one of the wisest and most moving.” An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Gloria Dorson, Roxanne Hart, Sharon Madden, Jason Ritter, Kendall Schmidt, Mary Steenburgen, Dana Vitatoe and Steven Weber.

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  Poems by Victor Hugo

  Victor Hugo

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  Victor Hugo is one of the best-known French writers, and one of the greatest literary figures of all time. His poetry made him famous very early, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest lyric poets when he was only 20 years old. We have selected for you 28 of his most well-known and powerful poems, mosty from the immortal Autumn Leaves and Contemplations.They are, in order: ChildhoodDeath in LifeEpitaphHave you nothing to say for yourselfHow Butterflies are bornI am content; Inscription for a crucifixSatire on the EarthSt JohnThe Dying Child to its MotherThe Poet's Simple FaithThe Vale to you, to me the HeightsInfantile InfluenceSunsetThe Patience of the PeopleThe Poet's Love for LivelinessThe Universal PrayerThe Watching AngelDictated before the Rhone GlacierTribute to the VanquishedEnjoy the intense rhythm and depth of Hugo's poetry, an essential part of French culture and one of the most beautiful works of poerty ever written.

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  Doctor Cerberus

  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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  A coming-of-age, coming-out cocktail with a twist of terror.  Thirteen-year-old Franklin Robertson is trying to survive adolescence.  His parents don’t understand him, his brother torments him, he has no friends, and he’s more interested in the high school quarterback than any girl.  The one bright spot in his life is the glow of the black-and-white TV in his parents’ basement.  Here, he worships at the altar of the Saturday Night Horror Movie, hosted by the eerie Dr. Cerberus.  Before long, Franklin is convinced that only by going on the show will his life be redeemed - by Dr. Cerberus himself!An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Simon Helberg as Franklin RobertsonJamison Jones as Doctor CerberusSteven Culp as Lawrence RobertsonPamela J. Gray as Lydia RobertsonJarrett Sleeper as Rodney RobertsonDirected by Bart DeLorenzo. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.Doctor Cerberus is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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  The Waste Land

  T.S. Eliot

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  The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, dealing with the decline of civilization and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem-its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its elegiac but intimidating summoning up of a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures-the poem has nonetheless become a familiar touchstone of modern literature. Among its famous phrases are “April is the cruelest month” (its first line); “I will show you fear in a handful of dust”; and “Shantih shantih shantih” (its last line). The title is sometimes mistakenly written as “The Wasteland”. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

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  Adam and Eve

  John Milton

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From “Paradise Lost,” Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 (though written nearly ten years earlier) in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, redivided into twelve books (in the manner of the division of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification; most of the poem was written while Milton was blind, and was transcribed for him.Milton first presents Adam and Eve in Book IV with impartiality. The relationship between Adam and Eve is one of "mutual dependence, not a relation of domination or hierarchy." While the author does place Adam above Eve in regard to his intellectual knowledge, and in turn his relation to God, he also grants Eve the benefit of knowledge through experience. ( Summary from Wikipedia)

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