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  East is East

  Ab Khan-Din

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  The play that gave birth to the smash-hit film - a wonderful comedy about growing up in multiracial Salford.
  The six Khan children, entangled in arranged marriages and bell-bottoms, are trying to find their way growing up in 1970s Salford. They are all caught between their Pakistani father's insistence on Asian traditions, their English mother's laissez-faire attitude, and their own wish to become citizens of the modern world.
  'First plays don't come much better than this... full of intelligence, irresistable laughter and serious promise.' Sunday Times

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  Feeling Afraid As If Something...

  Marcelo Dos Santos

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  A permanently single, professionally neurotic stand-up comedian finally meets his Mr Right – and then does everything wrong.
  Is Mr Right quite what he seems? And just how far will the comedian go to get a laugh?
  Marcelo Dos Santos's play Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen is a dark and bitingly funny one-man show about vulnerability, intimacy, ego and truth. It premiered in the Roundabout at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, produced by Francesca Moody Productions, directed by Matthew Xia, and starring Samuel Barnett.
  The critically acclaimed, Fringe First-winning production transferred to the Bush Theatre, London, in November 2023.
  'I'm thirty-six, I'm a comedian, and I'm about to kill my boyfriend.'
  'Blending dark humour, pathos and a hearty dash of millennial angst, [this] deserves to be the next Fleabag… the gag-count is ridiculously high and the writing overall has a Bennettian finesse… it's enviably accomplished' - Telegraph
  'Enthralling… a compelling and troubling character study with some killer punchlines' - Guardian
  'A cleverly constructed piece of writing, and often very funny' - The Stage
  'Frank, funny and occasionally filthy… a nice piece of writing, following in the footsteps of Fleabag' - Independent
  'Unsettling and deeply clever… The questions posed by Dos Santos's knife-sharp writing are satisfyingly complex… It's a very funny show, but also a telling one and it confirms Dos Santos as a really interesting writer, using an examination of the mechanisms of comedy to peer closely into the workings of the human heart' - WhatsOnStage
  'Very entertaining and sharply funny' - Lyn Gardner - Stagedoor
  'Funny and pleasingly absurdist… An entertaining, sometimes outrageous hour, brought to a very skilled climax' - Time Out
  'Is this the male Fleabag? Marcelo Dos Santos's fevered monologue about a romance on the verge of a nervous breakdown… holds us spellbound for an hour' - The Times

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  The Golden Cub

  Rosemarie Gilchrist

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  The Golden Cub is an epic family adventure set in the 1800's  and based on a true story. An Irish Landowners son travels to South Africa with his wife and young child, only to disappear without trace. Reports of a white child living with a remote Tribe reach the family and they send his younger brother to locate and recover the young boy. The Brother's girlfriend, from a poor family, runs away with him to Africa and helps in his daunting search. Colorful characters, grand adventures and the vast African landscape await, in this emotional and brilliantly narrated novel. Enjoy Love, drama and the triumph of the Human spirit in this memorable journey through the African wilds and all it's fascinating  inhabitants.

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  Swimming Lessons - Selected Poems

  Nancy Willard

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  This marvelous collection brings together the finest of Nancy Willard’s work Transporting us from Michigan farm country to the streets of New York, from a family picnic by a stream to snow-covered fields peopled by angels, the poems gathered here represent the best of Nancy Willard.Willard’s gift for peeling back everyday existence to reveal something magical and wondrous is everywhere in evidence here. Ordinary trees become surreal landscapes “fanning the fire in their stars” and “spraying fountains of light.” Poems featuring Great Danes, donkeys, and rabbits reveal Willard’s love for all living creatures. “How to Stuff a Pepper” and “A Psalm for Running Water” coexist with poems about visits from God. The title poem tells the story of Willard at seven, while “Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him” explores the joys and pitfalls of being a mother.Offering imagery from mythical goddesses to pumpkin saints to wise jellyfish, these are poems of astonishing imagination and grace, and will introduce a new generation of readers to Willard’s remarkable body of work.

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  Jessica's First Prayer and...

  Hesba Stretton

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  Jessica is a little girl who used to be an actress till she grew too big. Now she lives on the streets, mostly starving until she meets Mr. Dan'el. Mr. Dan'el gives Jessica his cast-off crusts and warmed-over coffee. Jessica follows Mr. Dan'el to a building where a bunch of people sing and then listen to a man tell them about someone named God. Jessica wants to know who God is so she sneaks into listen every Sunday, hoping she won't be found out. (Summary by Adele de Pignerolles) .Cast List:Narrator: Adele de PignerollesJessica: Esther ben SimonidesMr. Daniel Standring: Glenn O'BrienThe Minister: K. Adrian StroetWinny: RosalynnJane: Beth ThomasJessica's Mother: RachelPhysician: Eddy ShermanBrookes: Rupert HollidayDaniel's Conscience, God: David PurdyAudio Edited by: Esther ben Simonides

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  Sunset at the Villa Thalia (NHB...

  Alexi Kaye Campbell

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  A funny and passionate play from the author of The Pride and The Faith Machine.
  April 1967. Greece is in political turmoil. Charlotte and Theo have retreated to a small island in search of peace and inspiration. But when they meet a charismatic American couple at the port they are seduced into making choices with devastating consequences.
  Sunset at the Villa Thalia spans a decade as it explores the impact of foreign influence, planned and unintentional, on a nation and its people.
  It premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by Simon Godwin.

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