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  Immaculate (NHB Modern Plays)

  Oliver Lansley

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  A laugh-out-loud comedy first seen at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, published alongside an extensive UK tour by Les Enfants Terribles in 2006.
  You're young, free and single and haven't had sex for the last eleven and a half months, then one morning you wake up pregnant and to make matters worse the Angel Gabriel is on your doorstep claiming parentage...
  'Genuinely a laugh a minute, with some real strokes of comic genius' Metro
  'In a Fringe which is filled with comedies, this has to be one of the funniest' British Theatre Guide

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  Vindication - poems from six women

  Cherry Potts

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  The third of our #WomenVote100 Anthologies:a showcase for poets Arachne has previously published in anthologies, giving an opportunity to explore their writing in greater depth.
  
  These are poems made of myth and family, origins and anger, journeys and home: witty, clever, beautiful and sometimes harsh.
  
  Whilst not directly reflecting on the experience of women fighting for the vote, the concerns of
  
  women are foremost and are passionately addressed.
  
  My own sex, I hope, will excuse me,
  
  if I treat them like rational creatures,
  
  instead of flattering their fascinating
  
  graces, as if they were in perpetual
  
  childhood, unable to stand alone.
  
  From Vindication by Anne Macaulay, a found poem based on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft.

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  The Day-Breakers

  Michael Fraser

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  Saturated with locutions lifted from the late 19th century, The Day-Breakers deeply conceives of what African Canadian soldiers experienced before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War.
  		 
  “It is not wise to waste the life / Against a stubborn will. / Yet would we die as some have done. / Beating a way for the rising sun” wrote Arna Bontemps. In The Day-Breakers, poet Michael Fraser imagines the selflessness of Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the American Civil War, of whom hundreds were African-Canadian, fighting for the freedom of their brethren and the dawning of a new day. Brilliantly capturing the rhythms of their voices and the era in which they lived and fought, Fraser’s The Day-Breakers is an homage to their sacrifice and an unforgettable act of reclamation: the restoration of a language, and a powerful new perspective on Black history and experience.

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  Songs of Innocence and Experience

  William Blake

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  William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was impossible without experience. Songs of Innocence contains poems either written from the perspective of children or written about them. Many of the poems appearing in Songs of Innocence have a counterpart in Songs of Experience, with quite a different perspective of the world.    The disastrous end of the French Revolution caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind, explaining much of the despair found in Songs of Experience. Blake also believed that children lost their innocence through exploitation and from a religious community which put dogma before mercy. He did not, however, believe that children should be kept from becoming experienced entirely. In truth, he believed that children should indeed become experienced but through their own discoveries, which is reflected in a number of these poems.    (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Annie Coleman)

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  Downstate (NHB Modern Plays)

  Bruce Norris

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  In downstate Illinois, four men convicted of sex crimes against minors share a group home where they live out their lives in the shadow of the offences they committed. A man shows up to confront his childhood abuser – but does he want closure or retribution?
  Bruce Norris's provocative play Downstate zeroes in on the limits of our compassion and what happens when society deems anyone beyond forgiveness. It received its UK premiere at the National Theatre, London, in March 2019, in the same production which had its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, in September 2018.
  'An unsentimental act of compassion and a devastating entertainment, a wry polemic and the darkest of dark comedies' - Chicago Reader
  '[An] audacious, highly charged play' - Daily Herald

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  At Ease on Lethe Wharf

  Helen Coale Crew

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of At Ease on Lethe Wharf, by Helen Coale Crew. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14th, 2013.Helen Coale Crew was an American poet and novelist. Her touching evocation of forgetfulness comes from the Chicago Anthology, published in 1916. Lethe refers to the first river that souls bound for the Elysian Fields, the Heaven of the ancient Greeks, had to cross. Drinking from the river was said to have the effect of expunging all memories.

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