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  A Florentine Tragedy and La...

  Robert Baldwin Ross

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  Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt at tragedy – intense and domestic, with surprising depth of characterisation. It was adapted into an opera by the Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky in 1917. La Sainte Courtisane, or The Woman Covered in Jewels explores one of Wilde’s great idées fixes: the paradox of religious hedonism, pagan piety. Both plays, Wildean to their core, revel in the profound sadness that is the fruit of the conflict between fidelity and forbidden love. Written towards the end of his tragic life, these fragments give us a glimpse of a genius at his best: visceral, passionate, personal, poetic. (Summary by Simon Larois)A Florentine Tragedy - cast:Narrator: TriciaGGUIDO BARDI, A Florentine prince: mbSIMONE, a merchant: Simon LaroisBIANNA, his wife: Ruth GoldingLa Sainte Courtisane - cast:Narrator: Ruth GoldingFirst man: mbMyrrhina: PhilippaSecond man: L.FrenchHonorius: woggy298Edited by Ruth Golding

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  Artaban and the Quest for the...

  Jason Markiewitz, Henry Van Dyke

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  Upon his return home from the battlefields of Europe in 1918, Col Blackwood, a UK Army infantry officer, is reunited with his family on Christmas Eve after nearly four years away. In the midst of telling his children a bedtime story, we learn of Artaban, a Magi priest, and the fourth wise man to present gifts to the newborn King. As a result of dissension among his fellow Magians, Artaban has no other choice but to embark on this journey alone. Though his quest is fraught with challenges along the way that test his courage and stir his compassion, his faith never wavers.Artaban and the Quest for the King is based upon the 1895 novella "The Story of the Other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke.  Jason Markiewitz adapted the story and developed the script used in this production.  This dramatization is performed by a full cast of international, award-winning voice actors and is surrounded by majestic sounds and cinematic music.  More importantly, this story is suitable for all ages and is a heartwarming story of family, hope, perseverance, faith, and love. Artaban and the Quest for the King is a Markiewitz Audioworks Production.

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  Tribes

  Nina Raine

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  Billy has been deaf since birth|but his family has never learned sign language. In fact|until he meets Sylvia|who is fluent in ASL|Billy has never in his life been understood by anyone. This critically acclaimed sensation from Nina Raine will awaken all of your senses as it boldly asks some of life’s hardest questions: what is communication and understanding|and can we truly have it—with anyone? An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording|starring Rosalind Ayres|Barry Creyton|Thomas Dellamonica|Russell Harvard|Cerris Morgan-Moyer|Susan Pourfar|Mare WinninghamDirected by Alexis Jacknow and recorded before a live audience by L.A. Theatre Works.

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  My Nature Is Hunger - New and...

  Luis J. Rodríguez

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  The collected poems of one of America’s foremost balladeers of urban struggle and immigrant dreams Over his three-decade career as a poet, novelist, and memoirist, Luis J. Rodríguez has earned acclaim for his remarkable ear for the voices of the city. My Nature Is Hunger represents the best of his lyrical work during his most prolific period as a poet, a time when he carefully documented the rarely heard voices of immigrants and the poor living on society’s margins. For Rodríguez’s subjects, the city is all-consuming, devouring lives, hopes, and the dreams of its citizens even as it flourishes with possibility. “Out of my severed body / the world has bloomed,” and out of Rodríguez’s stirring vision, so has beauty. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Luis J. Rodríguez including rare images from the author’s personal collection. 

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  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are...

  Tom Stoppard

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  While attempting to discover the roots of Hamlet’s unhappiness, two courtiers go on a journey to plumb the depths of the universe’s mysteries. Tom Stoppard’s wildly inventive, Tony® Award-winning first play takes us through a tilted version of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy while casting new light on questions of fate, mortality and the meaning of existence. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in June 2022. 
   
  Directed by Rosalind Ayres 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring: 
  JD Cullum as Claudius and Soldier; 
  Seamus Dever as Hamlet; 
  Anna Lyse Erikson as Opehlia and Alfred; 
  Martin Jarvis as The Player; 
  Adhir Kalyan as Rosencrantz; 
  André Sogliuzzo as Polonius, Player-King, Ambassador, and Horatio; 
  Susan Sullivan as Gertrude; 
  Matthew Wolf as Guildenstern. 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood 
  Sound Design: David Wilson, Neil Wogensen and Charles Carroll 
  Recording Engineer, Editor and Mixer: Charles Carroll 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

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  The Poetry of Anne Kingsmill...

  Anne Kingsmill Finch

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  Anne Kingsmill was born in April 1661 (an exact date is not known) in Sydmonton, Hampshire. 
   
  Throughout her life Anne was involved in several Court cases that dragged on for years. These involved both a share of her parent’s estate for her education and later her and her husband’s share of an inheritance.  
   
  In 1682, Anne became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena (wife of James, Duke of York, and later King James II) at St James’s Palace.  
   
  Anne's interest in poetry began at the palace, and she started writing her own verse. The Court however was no place for a woman to display any poetic efforts.  Women were not considered suitable for such literary pursuits.  
   
  At court, Anne met Colonel Heneage Finch. A courtier as well as a soldier. The couple married on 15th May 1684.  
   
  The couple's marriage was enduring and happy, in part due to the equality in their partnership. Her poetic skills blossomed as she expressed her love for her husband and the positive effects of his encouragement on her artistic development.  
   
  Being staunch Catholics in a changing and volatile Protestant world would bring them many problems to endure.  Her husband continued to support her poetry and in 1701 she published ‘The Spleen’ anonymously. This well-received reflection on depression would prove to be her most popular poem.  However, it also revealed the continuing and mounting problem of her own frequent depressions.  
   
  When ‘Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions’ was published in 1713, the cover of the first edition stated that the works were "Written by a Lady." On subsequent printings, she received credit as Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.  
   
  Anne Kingsmill-Finch, Countess of Winchilsea died in Westminster on 5th August 1720.

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