Publisher: Charles River Editors
W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet who was one of the biggest contributors to the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1923, Yeats became the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This edition of The Wind Among the Reeds includes a table of contents.
In an emotional ecosystem as complex as that of our planet, is life nothing more than survival of the fittest? Michael Hollinger based his probing work on the real-life giant tortoise named ‘Lonesome George’, and the efforts to preserve his species that threatened the livelihood of the native fishermen on the Galàpagos Islands. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: Jaime Alvarez as Pedro/Chico Stephanie Beatriz as Ana Ortega Daniel Chacón as Park Official/Tour Guide/Alberto Richard Gallegos as Tito/Bernardo Daniel Guzman as Gonzalo Reyes Justin Huen as Jorge/Manuel Jay Montalvo as Miguel Mendoza W. Morgan Sheppard as Malcolm Geary Jos Viramontes as Carlos Zavala Cynthia Watros as Schuyler Baines Original music by Mark Holden and Wes Dewberry. Includes interviews with playwright Michael Hollinger and Carol Ann Bassett, the author of Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution. Directed by Jessica Kubzansky. Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA in July of 2012. Tooth and Claw is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.Show book
The latest work from one of America’s most important young playwrights and creator of the current hit TV series, “Brothers and Sisters”. Financial powerhouse Sandy Sonnenberg finds his personal and professional life threatened by unraveling secrets from his past. A tragic game of financial and moral betrayal plays out over four decades, with an exacting price - family, friends, love and marriage. Starring members of the original Off-Broadway production.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring Neil Patrick Harris alongside John Glover, Josh Radnor, Ron Rifkin and Patricia Wettig.Show book
An orphan girl, adopted by a wealthy Dublin family, is given a pair of beautiful red shoes. At first it appears her dreams have come true... but appearances can be very deceptive. A contemporary retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's extraordinary fairytale of dance, desire and destruction, premiered at the Gate Theatre, Dublin, in November 2017.Show book
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Call by Rupert Brooke. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 21st, 2013.Show book
An upbeat and empowering wartime tale about teamwork, collaboration, and beating the odds. It's 1943, World War II rages on, and the men are gone. It's left to the 'women in the workmen's boots' to pick up the pieces in the factory. They're being relied upon to build the planes that could win the war, and they take the responsibility seriously. On this particular day, they're attempting to build a Wellington bomber in record-breaking time: under twenty-four hours. As temperatures rise and prejudices bubble up, will they be able to pull together in time? Rachel Harper's play Wellington 24 was first performed by the students at Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton, as part of the Write the Girl project. The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.Show book
In a strange twist of kismet, Remica Bingham-Risher's paternal great-great-great grandmother, Minnie Lee Fowlkes, is interviewed for the Works Progress Administration Slave Narratives in Petersburg, Virginia in 1937, and her maternal grandmother, Mary Knight, is sent to Petersburg in 1941, diagnosed with "water on the brain"—postpartum depression being an ongoing mystery—nine days after birthing her first child. Braiding meticulous archival research with Womanist scholarship and her hallmark lyrical precision, Bingham-Risher's latest collection of poems treads the murky waters of race, lineage, faith, mental health, women's rights, and the violent reckoning that inhabits the discrepancy between lived versus textbook history, asking: What do we inherit when trauma is at the core of our fractured living? Utilizing primary and secondary sources, Bingham-Risher weaves together a richly textured vision of her foremothers' everyday and exceptional living: two very different women at opposite ends of their lives, converging upon the same space and time. The lives these women inhabit and generations they fostered add infinite layers to the fabric of the American tapestry. Room Swept Home serves as a gloriously rendered portrait of all that is held in the line between the private and public, the investigative and generative, the self and those who came before us.Show book
