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  Override (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stacy Gregg

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  A captivating, darkly comic play that questions what it means to be human.
  In a world where using technology to erase people's imperfections and disabilities is increasingly normal, one couple is going back to basics.
  Far from the city, Mark and Violet are looking forward to the natural birth of their first baby. But one of them has a secret that threatens to undermine their perfect world.

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  Cockroach (NHB Modern Plays)

  Sam Holcroft

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  A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.
  A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern-day comprehensive school. A teacher valiantly battles on with biology revision. She believes only education will set her pupils free. For outside the classroom, the world is in the middle of a long and bloody war.
  Despite her best efforts, the tide of conflict is soon lapping at the school gates and, one by one, pupils and teacher are pulled under as their hopes and dreams float away from them.
  'Sam Holcroft is uncompromising in her ideas and deeply ambitious for the power of theatre. It's a long time since a young writer has thrilled me this much' - Vicky Featherstone, director of the National Theatre of Scotland's production of Cockroach
  'hauntingly powerful... a playwright brave enough to do battle with the big ideas' - Guardian

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  If I Can Stop One Heart From...

  Emily Dickinson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 27th, 2010.

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  Transfer

  Naomi Shihab Nye

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  "In the current literary scene, one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life."— William Stafford 
    
  Dusk  
  where is the name no one answered to  
  gone off to live by itself  
  beneath the pine trees separating the houses  
  without a friend or a bed  
  without a father to tell it stories  
  how hard was the path it walked on  
  all those years belonging to none  
  of our struggles drifting under  
  the calendar page elusive as  
  residue when someone said  
  how have you been it was  
  strangely that name that tried  
  to answer 
    
  Naomi Shihab Nye has spent thirty-five years traveling the world to lead writing workshops and inspire students of all ages. In her newest collection Transfer she draws on her Palestinian American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her extensive travel experiences to create a poetry collection that attests to our shared humanity. 
  This audiobook is narrated by the author. 
    
  Among her awards, Naomi Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. She has received a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and four Pushcart prizes. In January 2010, she was elected to the board of chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.

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  THREE (Multiplay Drama)

  Sophie Ellerby

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  A funny, dark and thrilling play about family connections and the fallout from violence.
  Three sisters fight to keep track of reality as their whole world is shot to pieces.
  Dad's getting released from prison tomorrow and the air smells like a proper British summer. Tia's turned sixteen, smashing her GCSEs and gearing up for prom. Rochelle treats her little sister to a new dress from Westfield that even Jaz says she looks beautiful in – and Jaz wouldn't lie.
  Music blares in the backyard and the sisters smile together for the first time in a while. This could be the best summer they've ever had…
  THREE was first performed at the Arcola Theatre, London, in a production by National Youth Theatre's Playing Up Company.
  Multiplay Drama is an exciting new series of large-cast plays, specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.

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  I Think We Are Alone (NHB Modern...

  Sally Abbott

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  From those electric moments of discovery and connection to the dark hours of isolation, we all seek community and resolution. But sometimes the things that connect us are the very things we need to escape.
  Sally Abbott's I Think We Are Alone is a delicate and uplifting play about fragility, resilience and our need for love and forgiveness.
  The play was commissioned by Frantic Assembly as part of their twenty-fifth anniversary and premiered on a UK tour in 2020 as a co-production with Theatre Royal Plymouth and Curve, Leicester. The original production was co-directed by Kathy Burke and Frantic Assembly's Artistic Director Scott Graham.

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