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  Heroine (NHB Modern Plays)

  Nessah Muthy

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  Young soldier Grace, following a medical discharge from the army, faces a daunting return to the UK. She struggles to find her place, her people.
  Post-conflict and in search of the friendship she's lost, Grace volunteers at a local community centre, bonding with other women. As her trust in the women grows, so does her confidence. She hasn't laughed like this for as long as she can remember, and she almost forgets she has a secret to keep.
  But as the group starts taking action, Grace's secret becomes harder to hide, and the trust she has built begins to fray. Forced to question the very foundations of her beliefs, Grace finds herself back on the front line, but who is she fighting?
  Patriotism, nativism and modern Britain collide in Nessah Muthy's devastating exploration of the UK today.
  Heroine premiered at HighTide Festival 2017.

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  Song of the Soldiers' Wives

  Thomas Hardy

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  Thomas Hardy is regarded as one of the best English novelists. His novels are heartbreaking, unconventional, sad and lyrical. He also wrote many poems. This is one of the best. This is the weekly poem for the week starting at 5 August 2012. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

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  The Day I Stood Still (NHB...

  Kevin Elyot

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  A poignantly funny drama from the author of My Night With Reg.
  In the 60s, Horace, Jerry and Judy were teenagers. They were into drink, drugs, Hendrix, The Hobbit and, of course, each other. Thirty years later, Jerry is dead, Judy is in love and the gay-but-hesitant Horace is unable to get on with his life - until he receives a surprise visitor.
  'Even funnier and more touching than Elyot's 'My Night with Reg'... a most appealing play' - The Times
  'Elyot once more shows himself capable of transcending the ghettoising definition of the gay play... Through the experience of the lonely, hesitant, life-fearing Horace, he touches poignantly on a universal theme: the way we cling, in desperation to some golden moment in the past as a protection against the uncertain present' - Guardian

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  Short Poetry Collection 153

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2016.

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  Fragile! (NHB Modern Plays)

  Tena Štivičić

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  A darkly humorous play about the people behind the tabloid stories of migrant workers and sex-trafficking in today's Europe - the first play in English by an award-winning writer of 3 Winters (National Theatre, 2015), who is well-known in her native Croatia.
  London 2007: an aspiring actress from Croatia, a Serbian stand-up comedian, a Bulgarian mafioso, a Norwegian journalist, a sex-trafficking victim... Big city, big dreams, big fall.
  'a real find... an acute ear for the subtleties of language... strongly recommended' - The Times
  'powerfully depicts the real lives behind the new wave of eastern European immigration to the capital' - Time Out

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  Pygmalion

  George Bernard Shaw

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  “What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.”Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is the fascinating tale of Henry Higgins, a professor of speech and phonetics who takes on the task of teaching Eliza Doolittle, a lower-class flower seller, how to “act like a lady.” The street-smart Eliza knows how to fend for herself in many ways but wishes to become more ladylike, and Higgins claims that he can teach her to pass as a duchess simply by teaching her how to speak. The duo’s dynamic personalities clash, and the play follows their antics as Higgins imparts his book knowledge to a stubborn Eliza, who is happy to learn but reluctant to leave her old ways entirely behind. They teach one another about finding one’s place in society and embracing the colloquial as well as the formal. This play perfected the trope of two opposite personalities partnering to teach one another how their respective social circles work.  This classic play is critically acclaimed and still entrances modern audiences, and served as the basis for the popular classic musical My Fair Lady. It remains Shaw’s most well-known play, and the humorous and fascinating relationship dynamics at play make it a timeless classic that will inspire generations to come.

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