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  Henry IV A Tragedy in Three Acts

  Luigi Pirandello

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  A talented actor and historian falls off his horse in a historical pageant while playing the role of Henry IV. When he comes to, he believes himself to be Henry. For the next twenty years his nephew, Count de Nolli, funds an elaborate hoax in a remote villa, where actors play the roles of Henry's privy councillors and simulate the 11th century court. 
   
  On request from his dying mother, de Nolli brings a Doctor referred to as the latest in a succession to try to cure Henry (whose real name, if it is not Henry, is never mentioned). All the action of the play occurs in this one day of the visit. - Summary by Wikipedia 
   
  Narrator: KHandHenry IV: Peter TuckerThe Marchioness Matilda Spina: P. J. MorganFrida: Amanda FridayThe young Marquis Charles Di Nolli: Vin ReillyBaron Tito Belcredi: Delmar H DolbierDr. Dionysius Genoni: ToddHWHarold (Frank): Will IraceLandolph (Lolo): Levi ThrockmortonOrdulph (Momo): Adele de PignerollesBerthold (Fino): Mary JJohn: Mark ChulskyFirst Valet: Alex LaneSecond valet: Andrew ColemanProof-listened by Jeanie & Roohi

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  Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (NHB...

  Mary Shelley, Rona Munro

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  An eighteen year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations to come.
  A young scientist by the name of Frankenstein breathes life into a gruesome body. Banished into an indifferent world, Frankenstein's creature desperately seeks out his true identity, but the agony of rejection and a broken promise push him into darkness. Dangerous and vengeful, the creature threatens to obliterate Frankenstein and everyone he loves, in a ferocious and bloodthirsty hunt for his maker.
  Rona Munro's brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece places the writer herself amongst the action as she wrestles with her creation and with the stark realities facing revolutionary young women, then and now.
  'An inventive feminist adaptation... an exploration and celebration of female creativity' - The Stage

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  Twas the Night Before Christmas...

  Clement Clarke Moore

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  Librivox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

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  Crow-Work - Poems

  Eric Pankey

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  From the award-winning author of Augury, a poetry collection that examines the power of great works of art. 
   
  “What is a song but a snare to capture the moment?” This central question drives Crow-Work, Eric Pankey’s ekphrastic exploration of the moment where emotion and energy flood a work of art. 
   
  Through subjects as diverse as Bruegel’s Procession to Calvary, Anish Kapoor’s Healing of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio’s series of severed heads, and James Turrell’s experimentation with light and color, the author travels to an impossible past, despite being firmly rooted in the present, to seek out “the songbird in every thorn thicket” of the artist’s work. Short bursts of lyrical beauty burn away “like coils of incense ash”; bodies in the light of a cave flicker, coalesce, and disappear. By capturing the ephemeral beauty of life in these poems, Crow-Work seeks not only to explain great art, but also to embody it. 
   
  Praise for Crow-Work 
   
  “Eric Pankey’s sensibility is an unerringly generous one: he is always willing to step first onto unsteady ground, to test it for those who might follow. The poems of Crow-Work, like good gleaners, seek out possibility and sustenance. They are skilled, deft, and dazzlingly alert. Just when I think they have brought me as close as possible to the dark and unknowable things that make awe possible, they bring me closer. The journey is unnerving, intimate, and thrilling.” —Mary Szybist 
   
  “The delicacy and accuracy we have come to expect from Eric Pankey are here on display and as deftly deployed as ever. Pankey remains one of our leading practitioners of the metaphysical poem.” —C. Dale Young 
   
  “[A] wonderful exploration of the emotional power of art.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review, PW Picks)

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  Separate Tables (The Rattigan...

  Terence Rattigan

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  Set in a run-down residential hotel in Bournemouth, Separate Tables consists of two linked one-act plays. In the first a lonely divorcee tracks down her former husband in order to resume a kind of half-life with him. In the other a repressed young spinster offers brave moral support to a fake major accused of importuning women in a local cinema.
  In an alternative version, only recently discovered among Rattigan's papers, the major's offence was revealed to be homosexual; these 'alternative' scenes are published here for the first time.
  This edition includes an authoritative introduction, biographical sketch and chronology.
  'Few dramatists of this century have written with more understanding of the human heart than Terence Rattigan' - Michael Billington

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  Short Poetry Collection 131

  Various

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  This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2014.

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