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  Goodbye to All That (NHB Modern...

  Luke Norris

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  'I want you to remember something… You do what you want with your life. Alright? Break heads if you need to and hearts if you have to, but whatever you do don't do what I did. Don't waste yourself.'
  Luke Norris's taut and tender debut play asks if it's ever too late to start again.
  Frank has been married for forty five years. Three years ago he fell in love...
  'fiercely funny and astutely upsetting... A terrific debut' - Independent
  'we're in the presence, unquestionably, of a playwright of major promise' - Telegraph
  'Norris has come up with a fascinating 75-minute play about the differing possibilities of love' - Guardian
  'Norris examines with rueful affection and clear-eyed pathos' - International Herald Tribune

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  Plays from VAULT Two (NHB Modern...

  Tristan Bernays, Sophia Leuner

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  This anthology comprises five of the best plays from VAULT 2017, London's biggest and most exciting arts festival.
  The dark underside of the Greatest Story Ever Told is exposed in Testament by Tristan Bernays. Four lesser-known biblical characters are relocated to modern-day America, and given a chance to tell their side of the story.
  Previously seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Sophia Leuner's Save + Quit shares the stories of how four young people attempt to live their lives in London and Dublin. 'Beautifully observed… perfectly pitched' (Scotsman)
  In Wretch by Rebecca Walker, an ex-teacher and an ex-junkie meet on a night bus during long, dark nights of homelessness. A year later their lives collide again.
  Brad Birch and Kenneth Emson's This Must Be the Place offers two short ballads about migration, missed connections, and life on the edge of respectability.
  Maisie loves Sheldon, but Sheldon's not so sure. He suffers from indigestion. But maybe it's not indigestion, maybe it's love? Jimmy Osborne's Maisie Says She Loves Me is a one-man play about love, inheritance and not letting your feelings show.
  'London's answer to the Edinburgh Fringe… offers a whole line-up of treats' Evening Standard on VAULT Festival

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  Christmas In Spiddal

  Peggy Webber

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  It takes a village to tell this joyous send-up of a holiday/variety show in the small village of Spiddal*, Ireland. Shay Duffin tells the heartwarming tale of his sixth Christmas Eve, when his missing-in-action brother returned to Dublin at midnight to surprise his whole family during World War II. Irish limericks, songs, and even a visit from an American Yankee, Santa Claus.   
  (*Spiddal was the name of a village in Ireland, because there was a Hospital there.) 
    STARRING: MARTY MAGUIRE, SHAY DUFFIN, REDMOND GLEESON, PAUL KEITH, ELIZABETH McCLELLAN, MALA POWERS, TOM WILLIAMS, SAMANTHA EGGAR, LINDA HENNING, JAMES LANCASTER, JOHN O'CALLAGHAN, THOMAS MacGREEVY, AMELIA WHITE, KATHERINE DAVIS COX; WITH CART's Announcer, JOHN HARLAN; POEMS by TOM KERRIGAN; and WILLIAM WINDOM as Santa Claus.

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  Tymes Goe By Turnes - Stories...

  Cherry Potts

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  Frustrated by working under lockdown and worried that the 2020 festival might not happen, Arachne Press decided to continue as though everything would be alright, and asked writers to something that responded or reacted to or was inspired by a sixteenth century poem that editor Cherry Potts has always found comforting in a crisis: Robert Southwell's Tymes Goe by Turnes; or that responded or reacted to or was inspired by some concept in it. The poem observes the ebb and flow of fortune, nothing stays bad for ever, nor anything good - so get on with it while you can. And they have. Oh, they have. This isn't exactly a response to Covid-19, but there's an echo there - in Katie Margaret Hall's epic train journey, New Orleans To Vancouver, and Jackie Taylor's Rewilding; but there is also concern for the environment, and relationships and lives in need of nourishment they are finding hard to find. As with Southwell's poem there is a fine balance between dread and hope. stories and poems from:
  Brooke Stanicki
  C.L. Hearnden
  Claire Booker
  Elinor Brooks
  Jackie Taylor
  Jane Aldous
  Jane McLaughlin
  Julian Bishop
  Karen Ankers
  Katie Hall
  Keely O'Shaughnessy
  Kelly Davis
  Laila Sumpton
  Linda McMullen
  Lynn White
  Margaret Crompton
  Neil Lawrence
  Patience Mackarness
  Pippa Gladhill
  S. B. Merrow
  Sean Carney

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  The New Brownies' Book - A Love...

  Charly Palmer, Karida L. Brown

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  "[A] heartfelt tribute to young people of color and their 'reflection of resplendent beauty, ancient history ... and irreplaceable value.' It's a standout."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewInspired by the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bois, this beautiful collection brings together an outstanding roster of Black creative voices to honor, celebrate, and foster Black excellence.Give yourself a joyful smile as you look at your beautiful skin. Hug yourself. You are as unique as your fingerprints. This is TRUTH.—Halima Taha, “A Love Letter for You” from The New Brownies’ BookIn 1920, as art and writing flourished during the Harlem Renaissance, W. E. B. Du Bois published The Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun—the first periodical for African American youth, collecting original art, stories, letters, and activities to celebrate their identities and inspire their imaginations and ambitions.Building upon Du Bois’s mission, esteemed professor and scholar Karida L. Brown and celebrated artist Charly Palmer reimagine the groundbreaking publication with The New Brownies’ Book, gathering the work of more than 50 contemporary Black writers, including Ntozake Shange, Frank X Walker, Danny Simmons, and Alice Faye Duncan. Created by and for Black families today, this anthology is filled with inspiring essays, poems, and short stories reflecting on the joy and depth of the Black experience.Delivering delight to adults and children alike, this powerful celebration of twenty-firstcentury Black culture fulfills the promise of its source material by reminding readers of all ages that Black is brilliant, beautiful, and bold.

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  The Little Foxes

  Lillian Hellman

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  Lillian Hellman examines a wealthy Southern family and the greed that tears them apart. Regina’s brothers have inherited their father’s wealth, while after years of neglect, her dying husband is determined to see she gets nothing. It will take every ounce of her ruthless guile to outwit her relations and assure herself a gilded future.
   
  Directed by Rosalind Ayres.
   
  
  
  Starring, in alphabetical order: 
  Will Brittain as Leo Hubbard
  Tim DeKay as Ben Hubbard
  Heidi Dippold as Birdie Hubbard
  Jamie Harris as Oscar Hubbard
  Jared Harris as Horace Giddens
  Larry Powell as Cal
  Molly C. Quinn as Alexandra Giddens 
  Albie Selznick as William Marshall
  Joanne Whalley as Regina Giddens
  Karen Malina White as Addie
  
   
  Sound Effects Artist, Aaron Lyons. Piano solos and duets played by Nicholas Hormann and Katie Hume. Script Supervisor, Daniel Trostler. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Production Manager, Katie Friesen. Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Editor, Julian Nicholson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
   
  Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA, in October of 2018.

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