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  twins (NHB Modern Plays)

  James Fritz

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  Twin girls. One grows up, has a full life packed with incident, only a few regrets. The other dies twenty minutes after being born.
  Both of them are here.
  James Fritz's short play twins was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in November 2015 as part of the Miniaturists' 10th Birthday Bash.
  'Completely enthralling… a superb piece of writing that conveys the beauty and cruelty of life in a wonderful and completely non-sentimental way. A fabulous example of a short play at its best' - LondonTheatre1

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  Romeo and Juliet

  William Shakespeare

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  Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two "star-crossed lovers" from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are mortal enemies. Braving parental opposition, the teenage lovers marry in secret, with the aid of the well-intentioned Friar Lawrence. Yet, as Shakespeare has often observed, the course of true love does not run smoothly, and Romeo and Juliet must risk death to be together.

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  Marcus Douglas Presents The...

  Marcus Douglas

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  Come and meet the one of the most notorious families of the drug under world, the Jenkins. Our main characters Carl, Sammie, Neil, and the youngest daughter Marissa, goes down this road of, love, betrayal, and hurt. How their web is weaved with in Miles Clifford’s life. But can they piece together their brokenness before time runs out? Welcome to the Family……

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  The Decembrists - A sweeping...

  ANNA GOGOLEVA

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  St. Petersburg, 1825. 
  On a frozen December morning, young officers gather on Senate Square. They dream of a Russia without tsars, without serfdom, without chains. Among them is Andrei Volkov—idealistic, passionate, willing to die for freedom. But he leaves behind someone he loves more than life itself: Katya, a princess promised to another. 
  When the cannons fire and the dream dissolves into blood and snow, Katya faces an impossible choice. The man she loves is sentenced to Siberia—to thirty years of darkness, cold, and hard labor. The man who saves her—Doctor Berg, steady, patient, quietly devoted—offers her something else: life. Ordinary life. The chance to breathe, to eat, to wake each morning without fear. 
  But can you love two people? Can you build a future on the ashes of the past? And when the amnesty finally comes, thirty years later, will the ghosts of that December morning find peace—or will they discover that some loves never die? 
  From the glittering ballrooms of the Winter Palace to the frozen hell of the Siberian mines, from the hanging of five martyrs to the quiet apartments of Vasilievsky Island, The Decembrists is a novel about the choices that define us—and the love that outlasts everything.

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  The Divine Comedy

  Dante Alighieri

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  The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance. A culmination of the medieval world-view of the afterlife, it establishes the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. - The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or "cantiche") — Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) — composed each of 33 cantos (or "canti"). The very first canto serves as an introduction to the poem and is generally not considered to be part of the first cantica, bringing the total number of cantos to 100. - The poet tells in the first person his travel through the three realms of the dead, lasting during the Easter Triduum in the spring of 1300. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  The Flowers of Evil

  Charles Baudelaire

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  Loneliness, temptation, the fragility of man in a soulless new age . . . The controversial, banned masterpiece from the nineteenth-century French poet.   Sparking scandal in France, declared “an outrage to public morals” and “an offense to religious morals” by the Ministry of the Interior, The Flowers of Evil plunged Charles Baudelaire into a controversy that his public image never quite overcame. Nevertheless, the collection has since been lauded as a landmark in literary history and its writer extolled as the first modern poet.   With themes of love, world-weariness, beauty, and death, The Flowers of Evil juxtaposes the sublime with the commonplace. In the section titled “Parisian Scenes” are some of Baudelaire’s greatest poems—“The Swan,” “The Little Old Women,” and “The Seven Old Men”—which give readers an unsentimental view of the City of Light and of a bleak urban existence. As the Wall Street Journal proclaimed, “There is a sense in these angry, eructating late fragments of a man fully releasing himself to what he called ‘the joy of downward descent.’ And where Baudelaire went, modernity tended to follow.”  “The essence of a genius.” —The Guardian  “The profound originality of Charles Baudelaire is to represent powerfully and essentially modern man.” —Paul Verlaine

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