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  Aeschylus II - The Oresteia

  Aeschylus Aeschylus

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  This updated translation of the Oresteia trilogy and fragments of the satyr play Proteus includes an extensive historical and critical introduction.  
   
  In the third edition of The Complete Greek Tragedies, Mark Griffith and Glenn W. Most have carefully updated the translations to bring them even closer to the ancient Greek while retaining their vibrancy for which the Grene and Lattimore versions are famous. New introductions for each play offer essential information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. 
   
  Each volume also includes an introduction to the life and work of the tragedian and an explanation of how the plays were first staged, as well as notes addressing textual uncertainties and a glossary of names and places mentioned in the plays. The result is a series of lively and authoritative translations offering a comprehensive introduction to these foundational works of Western drama.

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  Living on Provisions of the Holy...

  ROYCE RUCKER

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  Who knew West Virginia would be the promised land for Two to Three Hundred-Thousand African-Americans escaping the hardships of the South after the Emancipation Proclamation? Like the Black Codes and Jim Crow. Freedom comes in many forms. West Virginia became a refuge for individuals looking for a better life, but it sometimes came with a deadly price. This book captures the spirit of one family’s devotion for one another, and the drive to never give up on the “American Dream” at a time in the United States of America when the desires of Black business owners were plentiful, but the reality of Black business ownership was just a dream...

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  The Thanksgiving Play

  Larissa FastHorse

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  A group of politically correct teachers are tasked with creating a Thanksgiving play for their students. They hire a Native American actor to lend authenticity to the proceedings. When it turns out she’s ethnically ambiguous the teachers are left to navigate the resulting pitfalls in this rich satire. Includes a conversation with playwright Larissa FastHorse.Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in September 2020.Director: Rosalind AyresProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergEllis Greer as AliciaJosh Stamberg as JaxtonMark Jude Sullivan as CadenLiza Weil as LoganProducer: Anna Lyse EriksonRecording Engineers: Neil Wogenson and Mark HoldenSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerMixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodLead funding for The Thanksgiving Play is generously provided by: Barbara Timmer and Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Mike and Beth Kasser, The John Logan Foundation/Desert Wolf Productions, Jamie Wolf“Ode to Joy” opening recorder quartet performed by Ulung Tanoto on his YouTube channel Si Ulung.The Thanksgiving Play was commissioned and originally produced by Artists Repertory Theatre, Damaso Rodriguez, Artistic Director; Sarah Horton, Managing Director, Portland, Oregon.Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of The Thanksgiving Play in 2018.

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  The Tale of the Allergist's Wife...

  Charles Busch

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  Four riotous plays in one volume from a winner of an Outer Critics Circle Award: “A comic playwright of the first rank.”—New York Daily News 
   
  Renowned for his wicked camp humor and biting social satire, playwright and drag legend Charles Busch has delighted audiences both on and off Broadway. This book contains four of his works, among them Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, one of the longest-running plays in Off-Broadway history, of which the New York Times said “the female roles [Busch] creates are hilarious vamps, but also high comic characters…the audience laughs at the first line and goes right on laughing at every line to the end.” 
   
  Also included is the Tony-nominated Broadway hit The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife—a comedy about a self-absorbed Upper West Side woman whose life is devoted to mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at the Museum of Modern Art, and evenings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, until her world is transformed by a visit from a childhood friend; The Lady in Question, a tribute to 1940s Hollywood that is both funny and suspenseful; and Psycho Beach Party, a cross between Gidget and Spellbound.

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  Librivox Multilingual Short...

  Various Various

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  This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. Brief description of the contributions:01 - Bisaya - Ang mga Mahadlokon [1921]: prose, scaredy cats, talawan nga ulitawo, simbang gabi02 - Japanese - Trokko [1922]: prose, fiction, young adult03 - Spanish - Día de bronca [1912]: poetry, lunfardo, slang, argot, love affair, anger, betrayal, unfaithfulness04 - Japanese - Matsu [1942]: prose, fiction, monologue, I wait, young lady05 - Polish - Moja pierwsza bitwa. Opowiadanie sierzanta: prose; short story; proza; opowiadanie; powstanie listopadowe06 - Portuguese - A Aia [1902]: prose, fiction, war, death, tragedy07 - Tagalog - Pahimakas [1898] (translated from the Spanish by Hermenegildo Cruz): poetry, Mi Ultimo Adios, oil lamp, Huling Paalam08 - German - Die berühmte Frau [1788]: poetry09 - Japanese - Oka no ie [1921]: prose, fiction , children, hill, house10 - Japanese - Sakurano kino shitaniwa [1928]: prose, fiction, monologue, cherry tree11 - Japanese - Ichyono mi: prose, fiction, children, ginkgo tree12 - German - Wahrhaftig: poetry, spring, nature13 - Japanese - Hitofusano budou [1920]: prose, fiction, young adult, school14 - Swedish - Önskenatt [1922]: poetry15 - Japanese - Sakazuki [1910]: prose, fiction, winecup, spring16 - Japanese - Okashino daibutoukai [1923]: prose, fiction, children, sweets17 - Polish - Dziad i Baba: short story, fable, moral, devil, greed18 - German - Auch ein Gedicht? [1864]: humorous nonsense impromtu poem as outcome of a lost bet19 - Japanese - Yabuno naka [1922]: prose, fiction, mystery20 - Dutch - Doodgaan [1888]: poetry, death

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  Overspill (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lia Taylor

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  A poetic, explosive thriller about teenagers on a night out that ends in violence.
  Winner of Metamorphosis 2008.
  In Bromley every Friday night, same time and place, Potts, Baron and Finch get ready for their weekly dose of booze, birds and burgers. But their night out takes a dramatic and terrifying twist when an explosion rocks the town centre, and a suspicious population points the finger at them.
  'Overspill is set in Bromley, but it could be set in any town anywhere in the UK. There are hundreds of Bromleys in Britain' These are the towns that millions of us grow up in.' - Ali Taylor
  'Ali Taylor's slice of urban life is small but thrilling. It is driven by a pulsating rhythm, a sense of place, a menacing undercurrent of casual violence waiting to erupt, and a layered story that suggests the lads' friendship was about to be blown apart by other factors as adolescence gives way to adulthood. The writing is gritty and sweaty, with a tom cat swagger and cut with half-rhymes and littered with assonance and alliteration... a tiny gem'- Guardian
  'A dazzling display of dramatic virtuosity... darkly polished, thrillingly inventive... gleams with gutter poetry'- Time Out

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