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  She Stoops to Conquer

  Oliver Goldsmith

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  In She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night, a young lady pretends to be a servant in order to win the notice of a young man who is painfully shy around women of his own class.  Hilarious misadventures and mayhem ensue before matters are neatly wrapped up at the end.  This play, one of the great English comedies, was first performed in 1773 and continues to be very popular with audiences today.  (Summary by LA Walden) 
  Cast:Mr. Hardcastle - Bob NeufeldSir Charles Marlow - David LawrenceYoung Marlow - balaHastings - Brett W. DowneyTony Lumpkin - ToddHWMrs. Hardcastle - AvailleMiss Hardcastle -Arielle LipshawMiss Neville - Charlotte DuckettFirst Fellow and First Servant - DrakaunusSecond Fellow, Second Servant, and Jeremy - rookieblueThird Fellow, Third Servant, and Roger - Joseph AbellFourth Fellow and Diggory - Algy PugLandlord and Mr. Woodward - zaantaMaid - Amanda FridayServant - Elizabeth KlettStage directions - Laurie Anne Walden 
  Audio edited by Laurie Anne Walden

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  Of the Subcontract - Or...

  Nick Thurston

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  Of the Subcontract is a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service. The collection is ordered according to cost-of-production and repurposes metadata about the efficiency of each writer to generate informatic typographic embellishments. Those one hundred poems are braced between two newly commissioned essays; the whole book is threaded with references to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Wolfgang von Kempelen and the emerging iconography of cloud living.
   
  Of the Subcontract reverses out of the database-driven digital world of new labour pools into poetry’s black box: the book. It reduces the poetic imagination to exploited labour and, equally, elevates artificial intelligence to the status of the poetic. In doing so, it explores the all-too-real changes that are reforming every kind of work, each day more quickly, under the surface of life.
   
  'The first "computers" were people, hired to do the tedious work of creating accounting systems and tax roles for the administration of newly created bureaucratic structures in post-Revolutionary France. Of the Subcontract presents the poems of their descendants. While this imaginative project extends a line of conceptualist practice that shows us how forms of aesthetic expression take root in the broader culture and what the continuum of amateur and professional work is, it also shows us how poetic acts, like other modes of production, conceal the contradictions and inequities of labour and value in a global world.'
   
  – Johanna Drucker, artist, author and Bernard Breslauer Professor of Bibliography, UCLA
   
  'In an expanded field of writing Nick Thurston is changing the literary landscape. Unlike Francis Alÿs’ workers, who were moving mountains in the desert by shoveling sand, Thurston’s underpaid writers are moving (one spadeful at a time) Robert Smithson’s heap of language from one place to another, leaving us with language to be looked at / things to be read.'
   
  – Kenneth Goldsmith, poet and founding editor of Ubu Web

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  Through a Camel's Eye - A...

  Dorothy Johnston

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  A young camel disappears from its trainer’s paddock and the coat of a murdered woman is found abandoned in the sand dunes. These seemingly unrelated events are a far cry from the regular police duties of Constable Chris Blackie and his rookie recruit from Melbourne, Anthea Merritt, in the small Australian seaside town of Queenscliff. 
  Little by little and with a burgeoning sense of menace, these two unlikely detectives carefully navigate the eclectic, often eccentric personalities of the town, as well as the disdain of law enforcement colleagues further afield, to uncover the unsettling truth. 
  Described as a ‘sea-change mystery’ Through a Camel’s Eye deftly juxtaposes the idyllic surroundings of a coastal Victorian town with the gravity of murder. 
  “Still, he looked for hoof prints, glad there was nobody to laugh at him for doing so. Chris shaded his eyes and squinted at a dark object, half covered in sand, then began to walk towards it. He should have been wearing sunglasses to protect his eyes, but he never thought of things like that. It was a woman’s coat, black, or at least it had been.”

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  Adventures of Mr Mocker The...

  Thornton W. Burgess

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  When an innocent blue jay starts talking in his sleep, it's up to him to find out what's going on in this fun, naturalistic, Southern-style children's story. (Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman) 
  Cast: 
  Narration: Marty KrisMr. Mocker: GargoyleUnc’ Billy Possum: Barry EadsOld Mrs. Possum: Donna LautenJimmy Skunk: Phil ChenevertSammy Jay: Marty KrisPeter Rabbit: om123Jerry Muskrat: Marty KrisHooty the Owl: Laurie Anne WaldenJenny Wren: Elisabeth HarveyBlacky the Crow: Beverly ScottReddy Fox: JimOCRBoomer the Nighthawk: Marty KrisBobby Coon: Marty KrisSticky-Toes the Tree Toad: Cheri GardnerMistah Buzzard: Beverly ScottGrandfather Frog: JimOCRTeensy Fly: ChyAnne Donnell 
  Audio edited by: Phil Chenevert and Linette Geisel

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  Coyote

  Bret Harte

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  He went with his widowed mother to California in 1854, and was thrown as a young man into the hurly-burly which he more than any other writer has made real to distant and later people. He was by turns a miner, school-teacher, express messenger, printer, and journalist. The types which live again in his pages are thus not only what he observed, but what he himself impersonated in his own experience. (from the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH (introduction to) COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS By Bret Harte

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  Summon

  Elizabeth Ridout

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  'This dazzling series shows that if the barriers can be vaulted there is true beauty to be had from the lesser-walked streets of literature. These works are both nourishing and inspiring, and a gift to any reader.' —Kerry Hudson
  The experience of living with the adventures and griefs of bipolar disorder forms the focus for this remarkable collection of poetry.
  Ridout uses the language of the fairy story and visceral images of the female form and femininity to explore how personal trauma and instability makes their mark on the wider world. Different voices and twisted accounts of the body and mind are combined with the mythological and the esoteric to create striking, beautifully unsettling and unusual poems—each a celebration of the extremes of being human.
  Spotlight Books is a collaboration between Creative Future, New Writing South and Myriad Editions to discover, guide and support writers who are under-represented due to mental or physical health issues, disability, race, class, gender identity or social circumstance.

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