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  Winter Cranes - Poems

  Chris Banks

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  Inspired by a group of herons resting near the author's home towards the end of a long and difficult winter, this collection of poems employs the crane — the symbol of longevity, immortality, and good fortune in Asian folklore — as its dominant image. Questions such as How do we make sense of our lives? and What is the role of the imagination, art, and place in shaping our vision of the self and teaching us how to be human? are explored using unabashed lyricism and a wry, philosophical style. Winter Cranes demonstrates Chris Banks' ability to be an uncompromising poet, determined to understand his experience of a world constantly changing around him.

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  Dream in Pienza and Other Poems...

  Toni Ortner

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  Dream in Pienza was originally published by the Timberline Press in a hand-set and hand-printed limited edition. The title poem, written in Rome, sings of the passion of unrequited love in another century. From birth through resurrection, we sweep our separate shores for sight of stars. Although the angels may have left us to our devices, we become the measure of what we believe. This is God’s gift to each of us.

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  Drowning Sorrows

  Douglas Post

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  A woman stumbles into a remote bar on the Carribean island of St. John - and faints. It isn’t the tropical drinks that befell Emily Miles, but the sight of the bartender, Duncan Crawford. In the restless Duncan, Emily is sure she recognizes the young man she has been searching for since he left her at the alter, twenty years ago.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Keli Garrett, Harry Hamlin, Martha Lavey, Andrew Leman and Paul Winfield.

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  Story of Rimini

  Leigh Hunt

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  A long poem telling the tragic story of Francesca da Rimini, the duped and adulterous bride, inspired by the character in Dante's Inferno. Published in 1816 and dedicated to Lord Byron, it is considered the pinnacle of Hunt's poetic achievements. Hunt, though having fine artistic sensibilities, was not placed among the first rank of lyric poets, many of whom he championed however. The Story of Rimini was written in prison, where he spent two years for slander of the Prince Regent, and is dramatically and vividly told, with much evocative scene-setting and careful portrayal of emotional conflicts. ( Peter Tucker)

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  Camp of Wallenstein

  Friedrich Schiller

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  This is the first play of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein Trilogy. Set in a Bohemian camp during the Thirty Years War, it introduces the major characters of the rest of the trilogy, like Albrecht von Wallenstein and Max Piccolomini, from their subordinates' point of view. (Summary by Libby Gohn) Cast List:Narrator: Libby GohnPeasant, Dragoon, Second Cuirassier: alanmapstonePeasant Boy: Charlotte DuckettSergeant-Major: Larry WilsonTrumpeter: KHandA Hulan: David OlsonA Sharpshooter, Schoolmaster, Recruit: Kristin GjerløwA Croat: BeniaminoMassimoAn Artilleryman: Arnaldo MachadoFirst Yager: ToddHWSecond Yager: balaSoldier-Boy, First Arquebusier: TriciaGSutler-Woman: Julia NiedermaierServant Girl: SavannahCitizen: AvailleCapuchin: Peter TuckerFirst Cuirassier: Algy PugSecond Arquebusier: Rosslyn CarlyleSecond Sharpshooter: Anna SimonEdited by Libby Gohn

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  Mary (NHB Modern Plays)

  Rona Munro

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  It's 1567. James Melville is an intelligent, charismatic and skilled diplomat – and also one of the most loyal servants of Mary Stuart, the troubled Queen of Scots. It's a time of political turmoil, and the shocking crimes he has witnessed have shaken him.
  Now he needs to decide who's guilty, who's innocent, and who is too dangerous to accuse. Change is coming, but at what price?
  Mary is an explosive political thriller, and part of Rona Munro's breathtaking theatrical exploration of Scottish history. It is the sixth instalment of The James Plays Cycle which began with James I, II and III, performed by National Theatre of Scotland, including a run at the National Theatre in London, and which won the Evening Standard and Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards in 2014, and James IV, co-produced by Raw Material and Capital Theatres in association with National Theatre of Scotland, in 2022.
  Mary received its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre, London, also in 2022, directed by Roxana Silbert.

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