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  Fleabag: The Special Edition...

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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  Celebrate the incredible journey of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's outrageously funny, blazingly forthright Fleabag, from fringe theatre hit to international cultural phenomenon, in this special edition – featuring the original playscript, never-before-seen colour photos, and exclusive bonus content by Phoebe, director Vicky Jones and key members of the creative team.
  In 2013, Fleabag made its debut as a one-woman show in sixty-seater venue the Big Belly, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's Underbelly. It was an immediate hit, going on to enjoy two runs at London's Soho Theatre, national and international tours, whilst picking up prizes including Critics' Circle, The Stage, Fringe First and two Off West End Theatre Awards, plus an Olivier Award nomination.
  The 2016 TV adaptation propelled Fleabag and Phoebe to worldwide fame, earning critical acclaim and further accolades including Writers' Guild, Royal Television Society and BAFTA Television Awards. A second series, nominated for eleven Emmys, followed in 2019, along with a sold-out run of the original play in New York.
  This special edition was released alongside Fleabag's first West End run at Wyndham's Theatre, London. It is introduced by Deborah Frances-White, stand-up comedian, writer and host of The Guilty Feminist podcast.
  'Throbs with a concentrated, combustible vitality… Fleabag keeps all contradictory shards and shades of feeling in play at the same time. That's why it's so gloriously disruptive' - The New York Times
  'Never has being a modern woman seemed so painfully funny, brutal, and hopeless all at once' - The Atlantic
  'Filthily funny… the character is a fascinatingly complex creation' - Guardian
  'Sucker-punch funny... I've never seen a play quite like it' - Scotsman
  'It has the pinpoint observational comedy of great standup, the fearless honesty and shamelessness of a raw confessional and the subtlety to draw you in… both gut-bustingly funny and gut-wrenchingly sad' - The Hollywood Reporter
  'Filthy, funny, snarky and touching' - Telegraph
  'A legitimately hilarious show' - The New Yorker
  'Frank and sometimes brutally funny... devastatingly good' - The Times
  'Phoebe Waller-Bridge's one-woman show Fleabag is unbelievably rude, astoundingly filthy and she's almost certainly going to go to hell for it' - Time Out
  'Penetrating, pitch-black and nastily brilliant' - Metro
  'Funny, vibrant, and blunt as a hammerhead' - New York Magazine

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  Aeneidos Liber Quartus -...

  Publius Vergilius Maro

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  Book Four of Vergil's Aeneid follows the tragic love and death of Dido, Queen of Carthage - an unfortunate casualty in Aeneas' fated quest to find a new home for the Trojans and become a founder of the Romans. 
  This audiobook is narrated in Latin according to the Calabrese Classical Reconstruction, with careful attention to historical features such as phonemic vowel quantities, geminated consonants, and nasalised final m. The narration is delivered with drama and emotion, pausing at major sense units or mid-line caesuras rather than at line boundaries, to enhance comprehensibility. The delivery is also grounded in a rhythmic pulse for better contrast between light and heavy syllables so that the listener can perceive some of the varied metrical effects employed in Vergil's hexameters.

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  The End of the Alphabet - Poems

  Claudia Rankine

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  A “harrowing and hallucinogenic” collection of poems from author of the New York Times–bestselling National Book Award-finalist Citizen: An American Lyric (Library Journal).   Claudia Rankine’s book-length poem about rising racial tensions in America, Citizen: An American Lyric, won numerous prizes, including the The National Book Critic’s Circle Award. Her new collection of poems—intrepid, obsessive, and erotic—tell the story of a woman’s attempt to reconcile herself to her own despair.   Drawing on voices from Jane Eyre to Lady MacBeth, Rankine welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque. Whether writing about intimacy or alienation, what remains long after is her singular voice—its beguiling cadence and vivid physicality. There is an unprotected quality to this writing, as if each word has been pushed out along the precipice, daring us to go with it. Rankine’s power lies in the intoxicating pull of that dare.   From one of contemporary poetry’s most powerful and provocative authors, The End of the Alphabet is a work where “wits at once keen and tenacious match themselves against grief’s genius” (Boston Review).

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  Eleven More American Women Poets...

  Claudia Rankine, Lisa Sewell

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  “A fine and selective anthology that’s also a critical introduction to some of the most provocative, and some of the most original, poetry out there.” —Stephanie Burt, author of Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems The American Poets in the 21st Century series continues with another anthology focused on female poets. Like the earlier books, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on their work. This unique organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools. Broadening the lens through which we look at contemporary poetry, this new volume extends its geographical net by including Caribbean and Canadian poets. Representing three generations of women writers, among the insightful pieces included in this volume are essays by Karla Kelsey on Mary Jo Bang’s modes of artifice, Christine Hume on Carla Harryman’s kinds of listening, Dawn Lundy Martin on M. NourbeSe Phillip (for whom “english / is a foreign anguish”), and Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson’s confoundingly beautiful surfaces. In addition, a companion website presents audio of each poet’s work.

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  Top Secret - The Battle for the...

  Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons

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  The original version of LATW’s groundbreaking docudrama about the Pentagon Papers, the infamous classified documents about US involvement in the Vietnam War, and how The Washington Post fought the government to publish them.  
  Includes a 1991 panel discussion with journalists Ben Bradlee,  Peter Braestrup, Robert Maynard, Carla Robbins, Robert Scheer, and George Wilson 
  Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica in March, 1991. 
  Directed by Tom Moore 
  Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg 
  Philip Abbot as Chal Roberts 
  Irene Arranga as Bailiff/Clerk 
  Edward Asner as Ben Bradlee 
  Ed Begley, Jr. as George Wilson 
  Jack Coleman as Eugene Patterson/Carl Coogan 
  Richard Dysart as Narrator 
  Hector Elizondo as Fritz Beebee 
  Bo Foxworth as The Soldier 
  Robert Foxworth as Ben Bagdikian 
  Robin Gammell as Murray Marder 
  Gerrit Graham as Robert Mardian 
  Howard Hesseman as Brian SullivanStacy Keach as John MitchellDarrell Larson as Darryl Cox 
  Nan Martin as Meg GreenfieldMarsha Mason as Katherine Graham 
  Richard Riehle as Lamont VanderhallHarry Shearer as Richard Nixon 
  Joe Spano as Ron Ziegler 
  James Whitmore as Judge Martin Peel 
  Harris Yulin as Henry Kissinger 
  Stage Manager and Sound Effects, Barnaby Harris. Recording Engineer, Steve Barker.

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  Touch (NHB Modern Plays)

  Vicky Jones

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  A shamelessly funny and brutally honest play about sex, connection and control, from one of the brains behind hit play and TV show Fleabag.
  Dee's sexual escapades are messy and temporary - just like her shoebox London flat.
  New to the city and in a stopgap job, Dee has the chance to reinvent herself. But how can you change your life when you don't know what you want? Welcome to the secret life of a thirty-three-year-old woman.
  Touch was first produced by Soho Theatre and DryWrite at Soho Theatre, London, in July 2017.

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