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  Keeping Count

  M. Travis Lane

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  Keeping Count, M. Travis Lane’s 18th collection of poetry, begins in the poet’s favourite terrain: short, condensed lyric that focuses on the natural world. “But pull a thread: music turns” Lane writes, and the book progressively defamiliarizes the reader, moving from ecopoetry to a longer poetry of interiority in the second section, concluding with a final section that focuses on issues of mortality. As George Elliott Clarke has written so aptly, “If you have not read Lane before, prepare to travel: Like T.S. Eliot, she wants you to have a transporting experience in your imagination. If you have read Lane before, prepare for fresh astonishment. She is Homeric breadth and Sapphic brevity."

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  The Flea (NHB Modern Plays)

  James Fritz

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  July 1889, London. A flea bites a rat. A rat spooks a horse. A horse kicks a man. As the chain reaction continues, a boy and his mother find themselves swept up in a national scandal that will reshape both their lives – and the country.
  James Fritz's play The Flea is a retelling of the Cleveland Street Scandal that shook England – from the streets of Bermondsey to the halls of Buckingham Palace – and features a flea, a horse, a detective, a queen, a pimp, a god, and Charlie, the telegraph boy who knelt before the Crown.
  This anarchic and affecting play was first performed at The Yard Theatre, London, in October 2023, directed by Artistic Director Jay Miller.

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  The Life and Amours of the...

  Kate Percival

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  This surprisingly explicit sample of Victorian erotica follows the sexual awakening and subsequent adventures of its author, Kate Percival, the "belle of the Delaware." Content warning: this one is definitely NC-17 rated. (Summary by wildemoose)Cast: 
  Kate Percival: Arielle LipshawHarry Percival: AnthonyLaura: Roseanne SchmidtClarence: Peter YearsleyAmy: EstherCordelia: Kara ShallenbergMargaret: KalyndaHelen: SusannaGeorge: David LawrenceHarriet: AvailleEmmeline: Elizabeth KlettFlorence: Miriam Esther GoldmanHorace: Mark F. SmithOlivia: LilianaValeRose: Linda AndrusEudoxie: Nadine Eckert-BouletRalph: Barry EadsHarry Duval: Denny SayersAudio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

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  The Waldorf Conference

  Nat Segaloff, Daniel M. Kimmel,...

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  On November 24, 1947, the most powerful men in American film met in New York’s plush Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to decide how to address the Communist witch-hunt being carried out by the House Un-American Activities Committee.  Twenty-four hours later they emerged having created the Hollywood Blacklist.  The Waldorf Conference dramatically speculates on what went on in that room.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Shelley Berman, Charles Durning, David Ellenstein, John Kapelos, Bill Macy, Richard Masur, George Murdock, John Randolph, Ron Rifkin, William Schallert and John Schuck.

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  The Natural Cause (NHB Modern...

  Robert Holman

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  'When I was a lad, little kiddie, I had this dream. And that was to burn down the world. Smash it up.'
  A dark and disturbing portrait of mental illness, and its effects on a young family.
  Barry and Mary are expecting a child. Barry is a bus conductor, but he'd like to drive the bus one day instead. His mother keeps telling Mary that Barry's not right, and that she should leave him. But Mary chooses to stick with Barry, for better or in fact for worse.
  Robert Holman's play The Natural Cause was first performed at the Cockpit Theatre, London, in May 1974. Although written after his earlier play Mud, The Natural Cause was Holman's first full-length play to be staged.

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  The Big J vs The Big C - Issues...

  Janine Booth

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  Poet, author and activist Janine Booth was part of the ranting poetry movement of the eighties, performing as 'The Big J'. In late 2016, she discovered a strange indentation in her right breast and was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer. In this collection of candid journal extracts, poetry, meticulous research and substantive politics, Janine details her journey from detection and diagnosis, through surgery, to 'getting over it'.

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