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  Intimate Letters - The Invisible...

  Bruce Whiteman

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  Intimate Letters comprises the seventh book of an ongoing long poem in prose called The Invisible World Is in Decline. Its title borrows from a string quartet by Leoš Jánaček, a profoundly emotional piece written late in the composer’s life when he had fallen in love with a younger woman. It also points towards the intimacy of letters themselves, the visible pieces that make up language. This collection begins with love poems, then moves to a section (“Wretched in This Alone”) dominated by loss. The “Invisible Ghazals” which follow take language and emotions more deeply into a sense of dispossession, a landscape of the heart characterized by feeling unmoored. “Desire,” the final poem, and the only piece in conventional poetic lines, attempts to rescue the heart from bleakness by proposing that passion does survive even the most difficult and demanding experiences, and “runs through our days like / music.”

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  Accidental Death of an Anarchist...

  Dario Fo, Franca Rame

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  An irrepressible fraudster known only as the Maniac is brought into Police Headquarters just as the officers are preparing for a judicial review of the recent 'accidental' death of a suspect in custody.
  Outwitting his captors, the Maniac dupes them into performing a farcical recreation of the incident, exposing the absurd corruption and terrifying idiocy at the heart of the system.
  Dario Fo and Franca Rame's riotous satire has been widely performed around the world since its premiere in 1970. Tom Basden's acclaimed adaptation was first performed at Sheffield Theatres in 2022, directed by Daniel Raggett, and starring Daniel Rigby as the Maniac.
  The production transferred to the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in 2023, before moving to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End.
  'An Italian classic reborn as an unmissable police satire' - Metro
  
  'A glorious comedy that leaps off the stage' - The Times
  'A riotous satirical farce brought bang up to date… Tom Basden's full-blooded adaptation [is] a furious but funny broadside against police malpractice… supremely, dazzlingly funny' - Guardian
  'A glorious romp from the super-talented Tom Basden' - Observer

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  Top Secret - The Battle for the...

  Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons

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  Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons’ timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public’s right to know against the government’s desire for secrecy.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
  
  Diane Adair as Meg Greenfield
  Bo Foxworth as George Wilson/Eugene Patterson
  John Getz as Ben Bagdikian
  James Gleason as Murray Marder/Judge Martin Peel
  Gregory Harrison as Brian Kelly
  John Heard as Ben Bradlee
  Raphael Sbarge as Robert Mardian/Ron Ziegler
  Russell Soder as Soldier/Darryl Cox/Clerk-Bailiff
  Susan Sullivan as Katherine Graham
  Peter Van Norden as Fritz Beebe/Dr. Henry Kissinger
  Tom Virtue as Dennis Doolin/President Richard Nixon
  Geoffrey Wade as General John Mitchell/Chal Roberts/Lamont Vanderhall
  
  Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in March of 2008.

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  Fish in the Dark - A Play

  Larry David

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  From the comic genius behind Curb Your Enthusiasm—a play with “a perfect second-act twist, and a solid last-minute kicker” (Vulture).   Fish in the Dark marked Seinfeld co-creator Larry David’s playwriting debut, his Broadway debut—and his first time acting on stage since eighth grade. David starred as Norman Drexel, a man in his fifties who is average in most respects, except for his hyperactive libido. As Norman, his more successful brother Arthur, their elderly mother, and a host of other characters try to navigate the death of a loved one, old acquaintances and unsettled arguments resurface—with hilarious consequences.

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  Henry VIII

  William Shakespeare

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  This is Shakespeare's dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and terrifying rulers in European history. The kingdom trembles as the giant monarch storms through his midlife crisis, disposing of the faithful Katharine of Aragon and starting a new life and, the king hopes, a line of succession with the captivating young Anne Bullen. Unlike his predecessors, Henry has no doubt about the security of his tenure on the throne, and dominates the royal court with absolute authority. The play has a surprising modern flavour: there is even a set of "Royal watchers" - the three gossipy gentlemen!

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  Brute (NHB Modern Plays)

  Izzy Tennyson

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  An unflinching play from exciting new writer and performer, Izzy Tennyson.
  Solo show Brute tells the true story of a rather twisted schoolgirl. Poppy's just started at an all-girls state school in a provincial English town, where there are rules with no logic, sadistic jokes that aren't actually funny, and the most sinister games played out of boredom.
  Brute won the 2015 IdeasTap Underbelly Award, had a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and transferred to Soho Theatre with Damsel Productions in 2016.

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