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  Mehndi Night (NHB Modern Plays)

  Fin Kennedy

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  A touching family tale about resentment and forgiveness on the night before a wedding, Mehndi Night explores the pleasures and pains of a cross-cultural identity in twenty-first century Britain.
  Written in an ensemble storytelling style that will suit younger performance groups around the country, especially those looking for predominantly female roles.
  'Light, bright, and blessed with theatrical verve' - Herald

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  Sonnets of John Keats

  John Keats

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  These crisply narrated sonnets are the best way to enjoy the work of John Keats. This collection contains nearly ever poem by Keats. Poems are meant to be enjoyed through audio. Whether you're a student or a fan of Keats, please enjoy! 
  This book includes the following: 
  'Sonnet I to Sonnet XVII" 
  "A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode of Paulo and Francesca"
   
  "After Dark Vapors Have Oppress'd Our Plains" 
  "As from the Darkening Gloom a Silver Dove" 
  "If by Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain'd" 
  "Oh! How I Love, On a Fair Summer's Eve" 
  "On a Picture of Leander" 
  "On Leigh Hunt's Poem 'The Story of Rimini', on the Sea" 
  "The Day Is Gone," 
  "The Human Seasons" 
  "To a Lady Seen for a Few Moments at Vauxhall" 
  "To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown" 
  "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be" 
  "Why Did I Laugh Tonight" 
  "Written in Answer to a Sonnet by J H Reynolds"
   
  "Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition" 
  "Written on a Blank Page in Shakespeare's Poems" 
  "Facing 'A Lover's Complaint'" 
  "Written on a Blank Space at The End of Chaucer's Tale of 'The Floure and the Lefe'"
   
  "Written Upon the Top of Ben Nevis, Sonnet to Byron" 
  "Sonnet to Chatterton" 
  "Sonnet to George Keats - Written in Sickness" 
  "Sonnet to Homer" 
  "Sonnet to John Hamilton Reynolds" 
  "Sonnet to Mrs. Reynolds's Cat" 
  "Sonnet to Sleep" 
  "Sonnet to Spenser" 
  "Sonnet to the Nile" 
  "Two Sonnets - to Haydon, with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles" 
  "Two Sonnets on Fame"

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  Word-Play (NHB Modern Plays)

  Rabiah Hussain

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  In the Downing Street Press Office an emergency meeting has been called. The Prime Minister has been ad-libbing on live TV (again) and his words are going viral.
  There is a flurry of accusations, and demands for an apology; but as his team debate what to do next, it's already too late. His words have found their way to dinner parties, bus journeys and newspaper columns across the nation – and not everyone is angry.
  Rabiah Hussain's play Word-Play explores how language seeps into public consciousness and reverberates with far-reaching consequences that will last for generations. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, in July 2023, directed by Nimmo Ismail.

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  Four Play (NHB Modern Plays)

  Jake Brunger

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  A comic play about sex and commitment in the 21st century.
  Rafe and Pete have hit a rut. After seven-and-a-half blissfully happy years, their lack of sexual experience is driving them apart.
  So when they proposition mutual friend Michael to help out with their problems - knowing full well Michael has his own partner Andrew â€" what seems like a simple solution quickly spirals out of control.
  Four Play premiered at Theatre503, London, in February 2016.

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  Free Outgoing (NHB Modern Plays)

  Anupama Chandrasekhar

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  A play that sets the rampant technology of the modern world against the conservatism of a traditional society. The British debut of a writer from Chennai, India.
  When a well-behaved Indian girl is filmed with a boy in her classroom, the video clip spreads like a virus. Transmitted from person to person it infects firstly the local community and then seemingly the whole of India with a burning moral outrage.
  Anupama Chandrasekhar's play Free Outgoing was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2007
  'Chandrasekhar writes with both economy and power... remorselessly ratchets up the tension with each short, sharp painful scene' - Telegraph
  'impressive... the play's importance is that it fills a gap in our knowledge - India seen not through sentimental or guilt-ridden colonial eyes, but as it really is: a nation torn between rapid advance and ethical conservatism' - Guardian

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  Back Porch Secrets

  Tanya Hilson

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  After being bounced from foster home to foster home and then into an abusive relationship, can one young lady finally find her voice to be free, or will a tragedy force her other Gemini side to come out? Ruby’s Diner pushes its audience to look at their own perceptions of Sex Trafficking, Homelessness, Substance Abuse, and the things that tie them together, life!

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