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  Concerto

  Robert S. Field

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  On Charlie Tyndale’s family tree Are branches bearing, he discovers, Ancestors of the landed gentryIncluding incestuous lovers;An intrepid adventurer too,With an eye for a collectible,And there’s a murdered musician whoIn life was all too corruptible.Was his killer a spurned lover, orA rival claimant to the estate, Or treasure-seekers settling a score,Or all, in a brutal syndicate?    And through all a Concerto’s movements endure;   To Charlie’s ancestral tale, the overture.

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  Theatre Royal - Private Rooms &...

  H. G. Wells, John Boynton Priestly

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  Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Ralph Richardson, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Robert Morley, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave, and Laurence Olivier. They were based on works by the worlds’ leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Anton Chekhov.  These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first installment of theatrical history.

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  Othello

  William Shakespeare

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  Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and his trusted advisor Iago. Attesting to its enduring popularity, the play appeared in 7 editions between 1622 and 1705. Because of its varied themes — racism, love, jealousy and betrayal — it remains relevant to the present day and is often performed in professional and community theatres alike. The play has also been the basis for numerous operatic, film and literary adaptations.
  Othello, suspicious and jealous military general, listened to a malicious gossip from his secret hater Iago and now believes that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful. Passionate nature of the Moor can't bear the shame and in a burst of temper he kills the innocent Desdemona…
  Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.

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  The Poetry of Alice Meynell -...

  Alice Meynell

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  Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson was born on 22nd September 1847 in Barnes, London. 
   
  Her family travelled widely meaning that Alice’s early years were spent around England, Switzerland, and France before finally settling in Italy. Her dedicated interest in religion brought a conversion to the Catholic faith.  Much of that viewpoint is seen in her first published volume in 1875, ‘Preludes’. 
   
  In 1876 she married Wilfred Meynell, the newspaper publisher and editor and together they set up and published a number of magazines as well as publishing the initial works of several poets including Francis Thompson. 
   
  Despite a hectic lifestyle of her own poetry and essays together with the family business she gave birth to eight children. Her health though was erratic, and she was frequently incapacitated by illness including migraines and depressions. 
   
  As the new century dawned she along with many other artists began to question the colonial needs of Empire with its segregation and oppression. In particular she sought and gained a role in the Women’s Suffrage movement as it attempted to obtain greater equality for women.  
   
  Today Alice is often overlooked for the quality and stature of her poetry which, during her career brought serious official consideration. She was twice considered but passed over for the post of poet laureate after the deaths of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred Austin. 
   
  Alice Meynell died on 27th November 1922. She is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. 
  1 - The Poetry of Alice Meynell - An Introduction 
  2 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell 
  3 - To A Poet by Alice Meynell 
  4 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell 
  5 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell 
  6 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell 
  7 - In February by Alice Meynell 
  8 - Cradle-Song At Twilight by Alice Meynell 
  9 - Song. As the Inhastening Tide Doth Roll by Alice Meynell 
  10 - Song of the Day to the Night by Alice Meynell 
  11 - Soeur Monique. A Rondeau by Couperin by Alice Meynell 
  12 - To A Lost Melody by Alice Meynell 
  13 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell 
  14 - A Shattered Lute by Alice Meynell 
  15 - Regrets by Alice Meynell 
  16 - Parted by Alice Meynell 
  17 - After A Parting by Alice Meynell 
  18 - Sonnet. Thoughts in Separation by Alice Meynell 
  19 - In Autumn by Alice Meynell 
  20 - My Heart Shall Be Thy Garden by Alice Meynell 
  21 - Your Own Fair Youth by Alice Meynell 
  22 - The Lover Urges the Better Thrift by Alice Meynell 
  23 - To The Beloved by Alice Meynell 
  24 - The Love of Narcissus by Alice Meynell 
  25 - An Unmarked Festival by Alice Meynell 
  26 - A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Age by Alice Meynell 
  27 - San Lorenzo Giustiniani's Mother by Alice Meynell 
  28 - Maternity by Alice Meynell 
  29 - The Modern Mother by Alice Meynell 
  30 - Summer In England 1914 by Alice Meynell 
  31 - The Lady of the Lambs by Alice Meynell 
  32 - Builders of Ruins by Alice Meynell 
  33 - The Lady Poverty by Alice Meynell 
  34 - At Night by Alice Meynell 
  35 - Renouncement by Alice Meynell 
  36 - To the Beloved Dead - A Lament by Alice Meynell 
  37 - Christ in The Universe by Alice Meynell 
  38 - Veni Creator by Alice Meynell

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  Creditors (NHB Classic Plays)

  August Strindberg

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  Young artist Adolf is deeply in love with his new wife Tekla – but a chance meeting with a suave stranger shakes his devotion to the core.
  Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, Strindberg considered this wickedly enjoyable black comedy his masterpiece.
  August Strindberg's play Creditors was written in the summer of 1888, and first staged at the Dagmar Theatre in Copenhagen in March 1889.
  This English version by Howard Brenton was premiered in March 2019 in a co-production between Jermyn Street Theatre, London, and Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, directed by Jermyn Street's Artistic Director Tom Littler.

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  Crossfire - A Litany for Survival

  Staceyann Chin

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  Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book.
  
  According to The New York Times, Chin is “sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking.” The Advocate says that her poems “combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform” and note “Chin is out to confront more than just the straight world.”

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