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  Unscorched (NHB Modern Plays)

  Luke Owen

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  A courageous and convincing play that sensitively tackles the important subject of child abuse.
  Tom works in digital analysis, investigating crimes against children. Faced with watching recordings of the most unforgiveable acts on a daily basis, in a job that barely anyone else can endure, he struggles to retain his humanity.
  Meeting Emily might just mean that his life has changed for the better, but when your entire working day is spent watching horrific crimes, how do you find room for love?
  Unscorched was the winner of the 2013 Papatango New Writing Competition in partnership with the Finborough Theatre, London, where it premiered in October 2013.
  'an amazing debut... a sensitive and thought-provoking portrayal of a difficult subject' WhatsOnStage
  'an intelligent piece... strikes a strong balance between humour and a more complex examination of the process of desensitisation' The Times
  'a cracker... admirably crafted' Time Out

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  Theatre Royal - The Inspector...

  Nikolai Gogol, Robert Louis...

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  Theatre Royal. The very name summons up something of grandeur and eloquence. And it was. Hosted by Laurence Olivier, these big-name productions also included the creme de la creme of acting talents from John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, and Orson Welles to Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave, and Olivier himself. They were based on works by the worlds’ leading authors, among them Charles Dickens, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and Anton Chekhov.  These are but a few of whose company we shall be keeping as we raise the curtain on our first installment of theatrical history.

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  Short Poetry Collection 010

  Various Various

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  Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 010: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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  Stuff and Nonsense - Poems by...

  Lewis Carroll

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  Alexander Woollcott called Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, "the man who wrote the most enchanting nonsense in the English language." Besides his many stories, Lewis Carroll wrote nonsensical poems. Eleven of his poems appear here, the most famous of which being Jabberwocky, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and The Hunting of the Snark. Narrator Griffin Rogers recorded Jabberwocky as a Christmas present for his son before spending the next several years recording additional nonsense whenever he was able to find an unlocked window and sneak into a recording studio. (If that sounds like a lot of nonsense to you, you will love this audiobook - and so will your children.)

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  Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)...

  Jane Austen

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  This unique take on Jane Austen's beloved novel is an adaptation like no other, drawing on over two hundred years of romantic pop history, and featuring five young women with a story to tell.
  You might have seen them before, emptying the chamber pots and sweeping ash from the grate; the overlooked and the undervalued making sure those above stairs find their happy ending.
  Of course, these women have always been running the show – after all, 'You can't have a whirlwind romance without clean bedding' – but now the servants are also playing every part. Let the ruthless match-making begin!
  Isobel McArthur's acclaimed Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) was first produced in 2018 by theatre company Blood of the Young at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, before a UK tour the following year, produced by the two companies and the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. It transferred to the Criterion Theatre in London's West End in October 2021.
  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an amateur company in want of an irreverent all-female adaptation of a literary classic to perform, need look no further.
  'Isobel McArthur's roistering all-female pop musical adaptation remains unexpectedly true to the novel's familiar twin themes of hidden passions and economic hardships... There are laughs aplenty, both period and modern, as the cast exchange roles and genders at break-neck speed... It would have won the approval of Austen herself' - The Stage
  Frankly sensational... the shocking truth of Isobel McArthur's smart, riotously funny five-woman adaptation is how faithful it is to Austen while being gloriously entertaining' - Variety
  'A total blast of hilarity from start to finish... sticks faithfully to Austen's brilliant story while opening it up into a riot of fun, colour and mischief-making. It is dramatic re-invention at its most enjoyable and if Austen aficionados don't enjoy it just as much as Austen virgins, I'll eat my pink Regency bonnet' - WhatsOnStage
  'Unfettered joy from start to finish' - Herald
  'A raucous and transgressive, yet surprisingly faithful, adaptation... the gags are plentiful' - Guardian
  'Clever, funny, feminist, and not even shy, in the end, of a few powerful moments of true romance' - Scotsman

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  One Poem at a Time

  Samuel Hazo

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  Edwin Arlington Robinson's Richard CoryEdwin Arlington Robinson's Miniver CheevyA.E. Housman's I to My PerilsGerard Manley Hopkins' As Kingfishers Catch FireA.E. Housman's Here Dead Lie WeArchibald MacLeish's You, Andrew MarvellJohn Ciardi's In Place of a Cursee.e. cummings' i am a little churchWilliam Butler Yeats' The Deep-Sworn VowRudyard Kipling's When Earth's Last Picture Is PaintedRobert Frost's The Road Not TakenRobert Frost's Take Something Like a StarGeorge Seferis' Mathios Pascalis Among the RosesPablo Neruda's Sonetos de AmorT.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral (one passage)P. Vidal's ProvenceSamual Hazo's The Best Place in America to be on SaturdaysAdonis' A Woman and a ManWilliam Shakespeare's "They that have power to hurt..."Hart Crane's The HurricaneWilfred Owen's The Next WarEzra Pound's The Ballad of the Mulberry RoadWalter De La Mare's Miss Tea and Peacock PieConstantine Cavafy's IthacaConstantine Cavafy's Waiting for the BarbariansJohn Donne's A Lecture Upon the ShadowAnonymous/Robert Desnos' An Irish Curse/Dove in the ArchMiller Williams' Folding His U.S.A. Today, He Makes His Point in the Blue Star CafeWillis Barnstone's Greek Anthology selectionsMarianne Moore's What Are Years?Robert Herrick's Upon Julia's ClothesSamuel Hazo's StingersJohn Balaban's Viewing the New World OrderRandall Jarrell's The X-Ray Waiting Room in the HospitalAbraham Lincoln's The Gettysburg AddressBertolt Brecht's HistoryCarlos Drummond de Andrade's Two PoemsCzeslaw Milosz's Rivers Grow Smalle.e. cummings' next to of course god America ISamuel Hazo's Lost SwimmerArchibald MacLeish's Ars PoeticaA Japanese Child's On Wetting the BedWilliam Shakespeare's My Love is StrengthenedSamual Hazo's My Roosevelt CoupeEmily Dickinson's Tell All the TruthWilliam Matthews' Translation from MartialA.E. Housman's When I Was One and TwentySamuel Hazo's Jack O'LanternWilliam Stafford's Traveling Through the DarkWalt Whitman's Preface to Leaves of GrassJames Joyce's I Hear an Army ChargingJose Marti's VersesRandall Jarrell's The Death of the Ball Turret GunnerEdgar Lee Masters' The Poems from Spoon RiverEdgar Lee Masters' One Poem from New Spoon RiverNaomi Shihab Nye's The Art of DisappearingYannis Ritsos' WomenAntonio Machado's Proverbs and Short VersesAlbert Camus' The Sea Close ByLight Verse, Robert Frost, Robert Herrick, etc.Gerard Manley Hopkins' Pied BeautyRobinson Jeffers' SkunksLinda Pastan's Emily DickinsonSamuel Hazo's The Most You Least Expect

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