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  RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots)

  Karel Čapek

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  Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations called robots they make are deserving of rights like humans do. Everyone else is convinced robots are nothing more than tools for human use. Is it so, or is a robot rebellion becoming a more likely prospect as the robots start to seem more intelligent than first thought?First performed in English in 1922, R.U.R. is most notable for being the play that introduced the word "robot" into the English language and one of the popular early examples of the science fiction genre onstage. (Mary Kay)Cast List:Narrator: John TrevithickHelena Glory / Robot Helena: Sarah TerryHarry Domin / Primus: ToddHWDr. Gall: Barry StreifertMr. Fabry: James CallaghanDr. Hallemeier / Consul Busman: SteveTonerMr. Alquist: Beth ThomasNana: KHandRadius: T. LayneSulla / First Robot: Tina NuzziMarius / Fourth Robot: Rosslyn CarlyleA Servant: Etel BussSecond Robot / Third Robot: Kitty Kay / Mary Kay

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  Ode to Bahá'u'lláh An

  Nabíl-i-A'zam

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of An Ode to Bahá'u'lláh by  Nabíl-i-A'zam (Mullá Muhammad Zarandí). This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.Mullá Muhammad-i-Zarandí (29 July 1831 – 1892), more commonly known as Nabíl-i-A`zam or Nabíl-i-Zarandí, was an eminent Bahá'í historian during the time of Bahá'u'lláh, and one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh. He is most famous for authoring The Dawn-breakers, which stands out as one of the most important and extensive accounts of the ministry of the Báb. Besides writing a lengthy history of the Bahá'í Faith, he wrote poetry about the historical events of the religion, which he would send to the Bahá'ís of Iran. He learned about the Bábí Faith at the age of 16 and met Bahá'u'lláh in 1851. He made several journeys on behalf of Bahá'u'lláh, was imprisoned in Egypt and is the only person known to have made the two pilgrimages to the House of the Báb in Shíráz and the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád in accordance with the rites set out by Bahá'u'lláh. After the passing of Bahá'u'lláh, and at the request of `Abdu'l-Bahá, he arranged a Tablet of Visitation from Bahá'u'lláh's writings which is now used in the Holy Shrines. Shortly afterwards, overcome with grief, he walked into the sea and drowned. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  Poems and Prose for the Departed...

  Various Authors

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  This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

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  Now and Then

  Gil Scott-Heron

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  A wide-ranging collection of poetry by the iconic “poet and polemicist whose lyrics have inspired and galvanized generations” (GQ). Musician, poet, and spoken-word artist Gil Scott-Heron influenced generations of artists with his highly original, disarmingly witty, politically provocative song-poems. Coming into prominence in the early 1970s, the self-proclaimed “bluesologist” has earned, among many other accolades, the title of Godfather of Rap. Now and Then presents a collection of poems from across Scott-Heron long career—including some of his most iconic recorded pieces, as well as lesser-known works that have never been recorded. With an introduction by Kate Tempest, this collection carries the reader from the global topics of political hypocrisy and the dangers posed by capitalist culture to painfully personal themes and the realities of everyday life. Through it all, Scott-Heron’s message is both steeped in history and as urgent as ever.“Scott-Heron is such a fine writer…the least likely pop star ever, one with a truly brilliant mind”—Sunday Times, UK “Some of the funniest and most literate lyrics in all music . . . From deadpan attacks on racism to withering sarcasm about the Great Society; from Chomskian rants to parodies of media shallowness—every line comes coated in a sardonically witty turn of phrase.”—Time Out

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  My Ariel

  Sina Queyras

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  A poem-by-poem engagement with Sylvia Plath's Ariel and the towering mythology surrounding it.
  When I am a bitch I feel in such good company.
  Nice girls never gave me anything but trouble,
  Eating the ground out from under me, then waving
  As I fall. Pity one has to die to see how liberating
  Bad can be. But what news had I of my own self?
  Words landed like razors, hours tinkled, suitors arrived.
  Listen, you'll think otherwise, but I tell you, betrayal
  Is your Get Out of Jail Free card. Take it,
  Don't look back. Of course you will. Look back.
  We always do, we who adore the muscle
  Of our cashmere cells, a cock that makes
  Our knees weak. Darlings, don't be sweet,
  Or serviceable. Don't accommodate,
  Write in blood or don't bother ...
  
  Where were you when you first read Ariel? Who were you? What has changed in your life? In the lives of women? In My Ariel, Sina Queyras barges into one of the iconic texts of the twentieth century, with her own family baggage in tow, exploring and exploding the cultural norms, forms, and procedures that frame and contain the lives of women.

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  American Appetites

  Joyce Carol Oates, Nick Olcott

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  L.A. Theatre Works presents the exclusive dramatization of Joyce Carol Oates’ best-selling novel. In American Appetites, the façade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. When Ian McCullough accidentally pushes his wife through a plate glass window during an argument, the American dream turns into a nightmare. A sophisticated, witty and chilling tale.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Lisa Akey, Keith Carradine, Alastair Duncan, Paul Eiding, Anna Gunn, Dan Lauria, Jean Louisa Kelly, Frank Muller, B.J. Ward, Elizabeth Ward Land, Liza Weil and Tegan West.

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