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  Life Raft

  Fin Kennedy

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  – Every man for himself.
  – I'd say we're better off sticking together.
  In a mysterious dystopia, against a backdrop of war, a life raft filled with children is adrift at sea – their passenger liner sunk by an unknown and unseen enemy.
  As darkness falls and their rations dwindle, fear, superstition and madness start to take hold. Hours turn into days, and it becomes clear that not all of them will make it back to dry land alive...
  Life Raft is a thrilling contemporary adaptation of The Raft of the Medusa, Georg Kaiser's 1945 play, written during his exile from Nazi Germany, and inspired by a terrifying true story.
  Written by Fin Kennedy in collaboration with Bristol Old Vic's acclaimed Young Company, and originally performed by them under the direction of Melly Still, this large-cast play for young actors is a dark study in the psychology of survival – and an urgent allegory for our times.
  This definitive edition of the play is accompanied by a series of interactive games specially created by award-winning games designer Tassos Stevens, allowing young people a deeper exploration of the play's themes, and the opportunity to create their own new stories inspired by the scenario.

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  Level Watch

  Mary Ardery

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  Based on her experience as a wilderness guide for women in a substance-abuse treatment program, Mary Ardery’s visceral debut is set deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. These narrative-lyric poems chronicle a labor both physically and emotionally intense: bearing witness to campfire confessions, facing uphill climbs and frigid rivers and wildfires, reckoning with relapses and overdoses. Here is a nuanced exploration of intoxication and recovery, the ways we share and manage pain, and how our personal histories can haunt us but also lead us down transformative paths. Firmly grounded in time and place, part record and part elegy, this is a book for those who have been affected by addiction and all who have ever sought solace or redemption in nature.

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  Cheer Up Jay Ritchie

  Jay Ritchie

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  Ritchie discovers and obstructs truths, like the difficulty of being at the bar and being a lilac bush simultaneously.
    I bought tear-resistant pants
    
    just in case
    
    
    
    I'm not
    
    
    
    a good guy underneath it all,
    
    being honest in discreet doses
    
    to underpaid retail employees.
    
    
    
    With an alternating sense of wonder and detachment, Jay Ritchie's first full-length collection of poetry grapples with death, disappointment, love, emails - the large and small subjects of daily life. His unflagging sense of humour and aphoristic delivery create a work that is personable yet elevated, witty, and honest.

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  The Great Gatsby

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anna Lyse...

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  Set in New York during the Jazz Age, this new adaptation tells the tragic tale of self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby. Consumed with desire for his former lover, Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby draws new neighbor Nick Carraway into his desperate pursuit to win her back — and into their world of lavish wealth, wild parties, and free-flowing liquor. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in July 2023. 
   
  Directed by Rosalind Ayres 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording, starring: 
   
  Janine Barris as Catherine, Party Wife, Friend and Guests 
  Nate Corddry as Nick Carraway 
  Sarah Drew as Daisy Buchanan 
  Mike McShane as Mr. McKee, Waiter, Policeman, Slagel, Second Butler, Mr. Gatz and others 
  Moira Quirk as Myrtle Wilson, Party Wife and Guests 
  Darren Richardson as George Wilson, First Butler, Owl Eyes, Nick's Dad, Klippsinger, and Guests 
  Rufus Sewell as Jay Gatsby 
  André Sogliuzzo as Meyer Wolfsheim, Mavro, Third Butler and Guests 
  Devon Sorvari as Jordan Baker 
  Matthew Wolf as Tom Buchanan 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for Audio: Mark Holden. 
  Recording Engineer, Editor, Sound Designer and Mixer: Charles Carroll 
  Automobile Design: Mark Holden 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

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  The Snow Storm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  The storm arrives, unbidden yet unstoppable, sculpting the world in reckless white. The north wind, a faceless mason, works without plan or patience—bastions rise, wreaths drape, roads vanish. No symmetry, no restraint, only the wild hand of winter shaping chaos into fleeting grandeur.
  By dawn, the architect is gone. What remains is a frozen wonder, a masterpiece of whim and force, too perfect to last, too wild to be remade.

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  Dirt Girl - Poems

  Sarah McMahon

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  "Poetry for people who hate reading poems." 
  This book of poetry explores the divide between urban and rural America from the perspective of someone who has lived in and loved both. It is for anyone who has experienced the dissonance of feeling at home in two very different places at once, or who has felt caught in between cultures, ideologies, religions, morals, values, or ideas.

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