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  Mrs Klein (NHB Modern Plays)

  Nicholas Wright

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  A haunting and poignant study of mother-daughter relationships, about the controversial psychoanalyst Melanie Klein .
  In 1934 the son of Melanie Klein, Britain's most admired psychoanalyst, was reported killed in a climbing accident. There were no witnesses. Nicholas Wright's play shows the effect of this shattering and unexpected death on Mrs Klein, on her daughter and on her new assistant Paula, a young refugee from Hitler's Berlin.
  Melanie Klein had herself come to Britain from Berlin with a controversial mission to extend psychoanalysis to infants. But her analysis of her own children has damaged her relationship with them almost beyond repair, and the news of her son's death provokes a bitter confrontation with her daughter.
  Mrs Klein premiered at the Cottesloe, National Theatre, London, in August 1988.
  'so literate, intelligent, amusing and, finally, moving' Telegraph
  'intense... exerts an increasingly powerful grip' Guardian
  'brilliant... coruscating dialogue and knowing humour' The Stage

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  Monica's Overcoat of Flesh

  Geraldine Clarkson

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  This remarkable debut collection from Geraldine Clarksoncontains the uncontainable; wondrous, spellbound and daring poems, happy to roam from South American monasteries to the shorelines of memory. These bold, often witty and always hawk-eyed poems survey matters of faith, tragedy and womanhood.
  Elaborate, skilful and formally audacious, Clarkson is a poet of extraordinary and kaleidoscopic vision; her writing always richly riotous with detail, her poems possessing the singular ability to move from the maelstrom of feeling to the stilled moment with an assured, quick elegance.
  "The speaker of these poems is endlessly morphable and endlessly verbal; she can say anything and beguile us into listening: put our screens down and really listen and come to life again in the garden of her diction, her memory, her weird unassailable vision." – Kathleen Ossip
  "... one of the finest contemporary practitioners of the prose poem. A mind-rattling, heart-shaking debut." – A.B. Jackson

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  Anne Boleyn

  Howard Brenton

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  A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history. Premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in 2010.
  Best New Play, Whatsonstage.com Awards
  Traditionally seen as either the pawn of an ambitious family manoeuvred into the King's bed or as a predator manipulating her way to power, Anne – and her ghost – are seen in a very different light in Howard Brenton's epic play.
  Rummaging through the dead Queen Elizabeth's possessions upon coming to the throne in 1603, King James I finds alarming evidence that Anne was a religious conspirator, in love with Henry VIII but also with the most dangerous ideas of her day. She comes alive for him, a brilliant but reckless young woman confident in her sexuality, whose marriage and death transformed England for ever.
  'This is no dry and dusty history lesson... a witty and engrossing impression of the times that gave birth to our first Elizabethan age, and the subsequent reformation' British Theatre Guide
  'The play bursts through the constraints of costume drama'The Independent
  'What an absolute delight... a beautifully-written piece of theatre that instantly draws you in into the life and times of both Anne Boleyn and King James I' Whatsonstage.com

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  Crossings (NHB Modern Plays)

  Deirdre Kinahan

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  In 1919, Badgersbridge Village Hall is Margaret's domain and the last place she expected to come face to face with Grace, who knew and loved Margaret's brother. This chance meeting results in an unlikely pairing that will change the course of both of their futures.
  Fast-forward to 2019. Mirjana from the care company is waiting to meet Sean's mother to help her stay in her own home. Mirjana is from Sarajevo, but has lived in the village since escaping the war there as a teenager. The village hall has been her solace and proves an unlikely link between them.
  With music, waltzing and unexpected connections, Deirdre Kinahan's play Crossings dances through a century, exploring how we return, resettle and adapt.
  The play was first seen on a UK tour in 2018, in a co-production between Pentabus Theatre Company and New Perspectives.

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  Modern Scottish Minstrel

  Charles Rogers

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  Subtitled "Songs of Scotland of the Past Half-Century, with Memoirs of the Poets, and Sketches and Specimens in English Verse of the Most Celebrated Modern Gaelic Bards." (Summary by Chairlie)

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  Psalm

  Wilson Sherman

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  From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the Lord's name is to be praised. Psalms 113:3 
  Wilson heeds the Bible call to "praise the Lord" in this joyful Jesus tribute, opus, and psalm. With the Son shining on the pages, sojourn God mind, celebrating the wonders of divine imagination. PSALM is book three in Wilson's "poetry novel" trilogy collection, which also includes, EXIT, and ROOMS. Along with the other two poetry books in the trilogy, Wilson has recorded PSALM with music by POETRY BAND available as an audiobook, and forthcoming video production (along with EXIT and ROOMS albums). "By means of sounds of spiritual music, and its accompanying expressions of spiritual speech is a bold, and daring, and most masterly conception that the public has embraced and approved with avidity." - William Blake. Former President Clinton wrote the band, "the new album is great!" http://www.poetryband.com/Clinton_Letter_2007.htm, "The best art is novel and new..." William Blake

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