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  First World War Centenary Poetry...

  Various Various

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  This collection of poetry, with its companion prose collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th July 1914. Most of the poetry, all chosen by the readers, is in English, but the collection also includes poems in Dutch, French, German, Portuguese and Russian. Please note that some poems are still protected by copyright in countries which observe copyright laws based on the author's date of death. The majority of the poems were written during the war itself, but some poems have been included for their relevance in other ways.

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  Cherry Blossom (NHB Modern Plays)

  Catherine Grosvenor

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  A play about the myths, ideas and realities of migration and identity in the twenty-first century.
  Grazyna Antkiewicz lived.
  Robert Dziekanski died.
  Two people from Poland. One real, one imagined. What happened - or might have happened - between there and here? The distance from living the dream to waking up in a shared room in Scotland with mushrooms growing out of the carpet. From desperately missing your child to falling in love with a foreigner.
  Cherry Blossom is a play by Catherine Grosvenor in collaboration with Lorne Campbell, Mark Grimmer and Leo Warner. It was first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2008.
  'Dazzling and heartfelt' - Herald, Scotland
  'A brilliant piece of work' - Edinburgh Evening News

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  Romeo and Juliet (version 2)

  William Shakespeare

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  Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two "star-crossed lovers" from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are mortal enemies. Braving parental opposition, the teenage lovers marry in secret, with the aid of the well-intentioned Friar Lawrence. Yet, as Shakespeare has often observed, the course of true love does not run smoothly, and Romeo and Juliet must risk death to be together. (summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast:Escalus: David MuncasterParis: mbMontague: Chris HughesCapulet: Andy MinterOld Man and Friar Lawrence: Alan Davis DrakeRomeo: Simon TaylorMercutio: Andrew LebrunBenvolio: David NicolTybalt: Joshua B. ChristensenFriar John: Sean McKinleyBalthasar: Scott D. FarquarSampson: EstherGregory: David O'ConnellPeter and Second Watchman: GesineAbraham and First Watchman: CalibanApothecary: Lucy PerryFirst Musician and Second Citizen: Laurie Anne WaldenSecond Musician: om123Third Musician: Aaron WaldenChorus: ancillaPage: C. J. NowakLady Montague: Christie NowakLady Capulet: Cori SamuelJuliet: Elizabeth KlettNurse: Kristin HughesFirst Servant: Abigail BartelsSecond Servant: Lizzie DriverThird Watchman: bryfeeFirst Citizen: Rhys LawsonNarrator: David LawrenceAudio Edited by:  Elizabeth Klett

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  Now We Can Talk Openly About Men...

  Martin Evans

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  Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of the Irish War of Independence. The second, Babe Cronin, is set in 1924, shortly after the Irish Civil War. Kitty is a dressmaker with a taste for laudanum. Babe is a stenographer who has fallen in love with a young revolutionary. Through their separate, overlapping stories, Evans colours an era and a culture seldom voiced in verse. 
  Set back some years from their stories, both women find a strand of humour in what took place, even as they recall the passion, vertigo and terror of those times. A dream-like compulsion in their voices adds a sense of retrospective inevitability. The use of intense, almost psychedelic colour in the first half of the book opposes the flattened, monochrome language of the second half. This is a work of vivid contrasts, of age and youth, women and men, the Irish and the English: complementary stories of balance, imbalance, and transition.

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  New Hampshire

  Robert Frost

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  New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It contains a number of his best known poems, including "Fire and Ice", "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", and “For Once, Then, Something”.  The collection is organized into three sections: the poem “New Hampshire”, a group of poems labeled “Notes”, and a second group labeled “Grace Notes”.  New Hampshire is considered Frost’s tour de force and cemented his reputation as America’s greatest poet. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1924.  If you want to understand what Frost was up to and why he is considered so highly, this is the book to start with.

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  White Lead (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jessica Siân

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  White Lead by Jessica Siân explores the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.
  The play is taken from Women Centre Stage; a collection of eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage.
  Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Winsome Pinnock, Timberlake Wertenbaker and April De Angelis.

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