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  Boys and Girls (NHB Modern Plays)

  Dylan Coburn Gray

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  A play in verse following four young people across one night in Dublin.
  Dylan Coburn Gray's play Boys and Girls was first performed at Dublin Fringe Festival in 2013, winning the Fishamble Best New Writing Award. It was also nominated for the Stewart Parker Trust Award.

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  Mud (NHB Modern Plays)

  Robert Holman

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  'Stagnant. It's stagnant. Seen more life in a dead rabbit.'
  A group of lonely people converge on the North Yorkshire moors.
  George, recently retired and grieving for his wife, has come on holiday to fish. Harold, son of the local squire, has come to shoot. Alan and Pauline have come to escape prying eyes.
  Hopes, dreams and fears play out in a Beckettian landscape as RAF fighter planes tear across the sky.
  Robert Holman's play Mud was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in August 1974 under the title Taking Stock.

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  Exodus: The Shanghai Jews

  Kate McAll

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  As Jews tried to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they faced unthinkable roadblocks in obtaining exit visas. And while they were denied entry in one country after another, a bureaucratic oddity enabled some of them to flee to an unlikely destination: Shanghai, China.  
   
  In this LATW original commission, playwright Kate McAll used the survivors’ own words to create a narrative of people starting their lives over in a completely new land. 
   
  Funding for this presentation is provided in part by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and The I. Michael Kasser Trust: Michael and Beth Kasser. 
   
  Special thanks to Prof. Steve Hochstadt for his generosity in sharing his research and recordings to help create this work. 
   
  Recorded at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in June 2023. 
   
  Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
   
  Edyta Brychta as Lisbeth Loewenberg 
  Michael Canavan as Herbert Greening  
  Shannon Cochran as Ilse Greening 
  Arye Gross as Gerard Kohbieter  
  Anna Mathias as Trude Reisman  
  Alan Shearman as Paul Reisman 
  André Sogliuzzo as Ernest Culman 
  Joanne Whalley as Melitta Colland. 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Recording Engineers, Mark Holden and Charles Carroll 
  Sound Design by Mark Holden 
  Editing and Mixing Engineer, Charles Carroll  
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

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  Chorus of Women

  Aristophanes

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Chorus of Women by Aristophanes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 21, 2012.Aristophanes was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. This poem is from the Thesmophoriazusae; meaning Women Celebrating the Festival of the Thesmophoria, sometimes also called The Poet and the Women) (Summary from Wikipedia )

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  First World War Centenary Poetry...

  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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  Romeo & Juliet

  William Shakespeare

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  A classic staged performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by the Old Vic Company. Starring Claire Bloom and Alan Bandel.

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