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  LAMDA Acting Anthology: Volume 5

  Exams LAMDA

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  This anthology presents the set selection of solo and duologue scenes for Learners entering LAMDA Graded Examinations in Performance: Acting from Grade 1 to Grade 5.
  The 100 speeches and scenes in this collection include excerpts from published plays and adapted novels, as well as new, original material written specifically for this anthology. There are monologues for solo performance and duologue scenes for two performers, all carefully curated to offer a broad range of material written by a variety of acclaimed playwrights, from Euripides, Shakespeare and Ibsen to Caryl Churchill, Chinonyerem Odimba and Jack Thorne. Also included is a foreword by actor and LAMDA graduate Ruth Wilson.
  For Learners taking LAMDA Examinations, this anthology offers a wide choice of characters and worlds to explore. There is material for younger candidates who are just entering the world of performance, as well as material for older, more experienced actors. For the general reader, this anthology is an ideal starting point for discovering the work of contemporary playwrights, as well as reconnecting with celebrated writers of the past.

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  Sitcom

  David McGimpsey

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  Implicating extremes from Coriolanus to Karen Carpenter, David McGimpsey’s Sitcom is both serious poetry and a work of comedy. Mischievous, generous and side-splittingly funny, this collection of wry soliloquies and sonnets begins with a milestone birthday and finds itself in demi-mondes as varied as the offices of university regents and the basic plot arc of Hawaii Five-O – offering, along the way, a sincere contemplationof mortality and the fashion sense of Mary Tyler Moore. Unembarrassed by its literary allusions or its hi-lo hybridity, Sitcom’s strategic and encompassing voice is prepared for each comedic disaster and is, somehow, always ready for next week’s episode.
     
  ‘McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for the wickedly funny wisecrack.’
     
  – The Washington Post
     
  ‘[McGimpsey] finds thehumanity hiding in the hilarity. This guy is as funny as David Sedaris, and more inventive.’
     
  – The Ottawa Citizen

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  Inferno

  Anonymous

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  Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is the first part of The Divine Comedy, a poetic journey through Hell. Guided by the Roman poet Virgil, Dante travels through nine concentric circles of torment, each punishing souls according to the gravity of their sins—from lust and gluttony to treachery and betrayal. As he descends deeper into the frozen core where Satan resides, Dante confronts the consequences of moral corruption and divine justice. A profound allegory of spiritual crisis and redemption, Inferno blends vivid imagery, classical philosophy, and Christian theology to explore human sin, repentance, and the soul’s path toward God.

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  SWANSEA AUTOMATIC (Second Edition)

  Rhys Trimble

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  "This book has shaped this piece of text [ITSELF] already—by neighbouring it (& in my mind) co-opted it, made it something other than an essay—part of SWANSEA culture—We obey these local rules slavishly—and fail to exploit them—[NOT SURE WHAT I'M ON ABOUT HERE]"Authorial violence: Swansea Automatic was published 10 years ago, around the last year of the snake to 0 acclaim except for by those who read it of course. I even did a little residency, which was more like squatting ina little shop on the High Street, Swansea but as time has passed, I came to consider this one of my few, if not only book that can boast the synthesis of my extreme late modernist tendencies and some attempt to fit into the aesthetic of popular fiction. nonetheless it doesn't pull too many punches, it's comedy, it's poetry, it's deconstructed pros,e even philosophy, textual analysis, cynghanedd, and more.Spinning Around the dirty first person narrative is the self-referential Vonegut and recycled psychogeographic of the Fiery Elephant of Johnson, Brooke-Rose, and Sinclair. An attempt to exercise the Demon of Swansea from my formative years. But actually set in North Wales just as much. Swansea is a dream city that could just as easily be London, Glasgow, Belfast, Lublin or Cairo...A second bite the cherry: a second edition is occurring, along with the audiobook and kindle edition and the album (movie!), hopefully generatinga hammer blow on the collective unconscious of our post-media universe. Swansea Automatic justifies itself to me because 2015 was also the very last gasp of the fin de siècle of the apocalyptic contemporary, where the post beats, post flaneur metanarratives where still just about alive. It's rare for me to look back, but I had an idea this one could be a cult book somehow. Help it become so and consume as such, cultishly. 
    
  RT

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  Embers

  Uzma Hussain

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  In ‘Embers’, Uzma Hussain presents a bold and deeply resonant debut collection of poetry that delves into the raw realities of love, loss, and survival. With striking honesty and vulnerability, these verses guide readers through the pain of longing and the quiet resilience that follows heartache, making Embers an unforgettable reading experience.
  Though this is her first book, Uzma’s work carries the emotional depth and maturity of a seasoned poet. Her writing captures the universal struggle of heartbreak and the weight of unspoken pain. ‘Embers’ offers a powerful voice for those seeking meaning and solace in the aftermath of emotional wounds.

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  Come To Tower - Poems with Music...

  Ayse Balkos

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  Finding Freedom in the Face of Grief: A journey of Family and Self-Discovery. Ayse is incredible and she is not even aware of it. 
  Ayse Balkos's first book, Come To Tower, is the poetry collection of a fresh voice of a renegade woman, angry, hopeful, strong, confused, clear and vulnerable. The poems are accompanied by Ash Gray’s beautiful tones of Hummingbird Gibson acoustic guitar, dazzlingly honest, unpretentious and real journey of a soul. 
  A goodbye letter and a fresh new journey. Her voice is elegant, unique and original. This is what a new poetry bursting from raw heart sounds like. 
  Ayse's untamed words and Ash’s melodies will take you on a journey to a different reality. 
  She was born with a sense of void and that void taught her how to listen to her feelings. We are grateful for that sense and pain she had to go through to write these verses. 
  This audio book is an hour long.

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