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  Sonnets from the Portuguese

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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  The highly accaimed collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning written in the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. Read by Emma Topping and Katharine Cornell

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  Isolated - Two Plays

  Greg MacArthur

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  Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada’s most intriguing dramatic voices.
   
  In Recovery, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large recovery centres are set up, promising refuge, treatment and healing to millions of addicts. But all is not what it seems. Following three residents of a facility in Antarctica, McArthur delivers a quirky and unsettling play that reveals the fear and isolation of the oppressed individual, and the consequences of a medicalized society.
   
  In Get Away, David finds two beautiful teenagers when he escapes to an isolated cabin where he hopes to cure his unusually persistent listlessness. Sensing that they might need protecting – and may be crucial to his survival – he invites them in, but the roles of predator and prey become unclear as the three become dangerously intertwined. Both fantastical and horrifying, Get Away provides a resonating look at the destructive nature of longing and our desperate need for love.
   
  ‘[MacArthur] has a beautiful voice and his analysis of the unpredictability of our sexuality, at once nurturing and predatory, is shrewd.’
   
  – The Globe and Mail (about Get Away)

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  Speed the Plow

  David Mamet

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  Jaded Hollywood producer Bobby Gould has spent a career reaping what others sow, until the night he’s forced to choose between his loyal friend’s sure-fire hit and a beautiful girl’s art-house project. During a wicked evening of seduction and manipulation, Bobby discovers that the power he exerts is more elusive than it seems.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jeff Goldblum, Adam Arkin and Dina Waters.

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  Tomcat (NHB Modern Plays)

  James Rushbrooke

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  In the not-too-distant future, the world is better than ever. Diseases and disorders have been wiped out. But Jess doesn't belong. She slipped through the net and there's something dangerous in her DNA, something that must be 'cured'. Charlie is watching Jess. He'll do whatever it takes to keep society safe. As debate over genetic screening rages,Tomcat asks how far will we go to keep humanity healthy? When you can learn everything about a person from a computer screen, is there anything left to discover? Tomcat by James Rushbrooke was the winner of the 2015 Papatango New Writing Prize in association with Southwark Playhouse, London, where it premiered in October 2015.

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  Mustafa (NHB Modern Plays)

  Naylah Ahmed

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  A vivid and compelling thriller about belief and retribution.
  Mustafa is in prison for the death of a teenage boy during an exorcism. Racked with guilt at the loss of an innocent life and isolated in a world where his beliefs are constantly challenged, he's trying to avoid trouble. But when prisoners who taunt him suffer mysterious injuries and prison officers start behaving strangely, Mustafa realises the spirit he tried to banish is still with him, and he must confront it once again.
  Naylah Ahmed's play Mustafa was first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in 2012 in a co-production by Kali Theatre and Birmingham Rep.
  'Compelling and engaging' - Whatsonstage.com
  'Manages to combine such explosive themes as power, violence, notions of guilt, psychological torture and the competing loyalties of faith and family with a persuasive and surprising theatricality... A sensitive and shocking piece of work' - www.onestoparts.com
  'Weaves a cool and cunning story… delivers a good few cold shivers' - Time Out
  'Naylah Ahmed uses the ideas of possession and haunting as a tantalising way of exploring perceptions of (and prejudices towards) 'otherness'' - Metro (London)

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - 12 Poets 12...

  Jalaluddin Rumi, Kabir,...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - The Mystic East 
  2 - Only Breath by Jalaluddin Rumi 
  3 - The Guest Is Inside You and Also Inside Me by Kabir 
  4 - An Ocean Without Shore by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi 
  5 - Neither Hindu Nor Muslim by Bulleh Shah 
  6 - Acceptance by Janabai 
  7 - Go To That Impenetrable Realm by Mirabai 
  8 - Dhanasri Measure by Guru Nanak 
  9 - Dream Fable by Rabia al Basri 
  10 - The Lute Will Beg by Hafiz 
  11 - The Song of Chess by Abraham Ibn Ezra 
  12 - The Value of Friendship by Confucius 
  13 - All Things Pass by Lao Tzu

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