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These poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout.
In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved.
Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author's time as writer-in-residence there, this is a vivid exploration that is honest and searching...
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Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Seamus Heaney's late father.
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In The Spirit Level, as ever with Seamus Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects, a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing, are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
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A stage adaptation of Katherine Boo's National Book Award-winning study of life in a Mumbai slum
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, Annawadi, full of people with plans of their own.
Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he's as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government...
5) Café Culture
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Cafe Culture' is profound and absurd, heavy and light, serious and funny. Whatever it is, it is immediate, honest and fascinating. It's content ranges from a metaphysical conceit on an egg-timer, 'The Sands of Time', to a comic ballad on breaking wind, 'There's no Point in Farting.' But be careful, even the seemingly irreverent might get you thinking!
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This version of Frank Wedekind's extraordinary play Spring Awakening was specially-commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The themes it addresses and the sheer energy of the writing make this masterpiece of German symbolism startlingly relevant today.
With its scenes of pubescent angst, sexual outspokenness, rape and homosexuality, the play still, more than one hundred years after it was first staged, has the power to shock. Ted Hughes's...
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A silent girl finds her voice, and her mother, when a mysterious East End antiques dealer teaches her how small actions lead to big effects, and how to master the law of unintended consequences.
The Domino Effect – a five-star hit at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – is an ensemble play for teenage performers created by award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy.
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A young couple prepare dinner - but something isn't right. In a city not so different from our own capital, a group of freedom fighters attempts to stand up to an Orwellian establishment in increasingly perilous circumstances. The story that unfolds brings into question relationships, identities and the nature of reality itself'
'Holcroft plunges us into an Orwellian near-future dystopia, where governmental aural surveillance is rife and, for political...
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Alan Amos' comprehensive collection of poems represents a lyrical journey where emotions find release through the potent power of words.
Years of Poetry chronicles the unexpected voyage of an ordinary individual who finds solace and escape in crafting poems, never anticipating the profound impact they would wield. Trapped in the enigmatic interplay between reality and dreamlike states, the poet explores heartache, joy, and the indomitable spirit that...
10) The Evil Doers
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White Lead by Jessica Siân explores the expectations and responsibilities of being an artist and a woman.
The play is taken from Women Centre Stage; a collection of eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage.
Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding...
11) Wine Not?
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Fifteen poems about a wild night out drinking and getting merry Alcohol has the amazing ability to bring about changes in a person. So many of us feel the urge to drink it and become more fearless, hyperactive and daring. The main character in Wine Not? craves alcohol and likens it to rocket fuel. His desire to get drunk is strong and he's always excited about nights out. All he wants is to let loose and have the best time ever. However, he has to...
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Six years on from a failed marriage and with her son Ben now enjoying University life, Cassie finds herself at an inevitable crossroads and struggling to work out what her purpose is. Counting Ben as her only successful achievement in her life so far doesn't give her a great track record; but it also means she has nothing to lose by putting everything into a move to Brighton. Actively encouraged by Ben and her closest friend Lucy she goes looking...
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Edición bilingüe traducido por Violeta Gil. "Que se coman el caos" es un canto a la actual generación perdida, personalizado por varios personajes situados en Londres que sufren las consecuencias de la globalización, el cambio climático y otros problemas actuales como la falta de oportunidades laborales. Kae Tempest siempre encuentra algo absolutamente magnético en su trabajo híbrido, que le habla al corazón y a la conciencia y a las condiciones...
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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.
It was first seen at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre and Paines Plough's pop-up venue Roundabout, before being selected for the 2017 VAULT Festival, London.
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Now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures, The History Boys: The Film contains Alan Bennett's diary of the filming, the shooting script, and an introduction by director Nicholas Hytner, as well as an extensive plate section that includes a look behind the scenes and stills from the film.
An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form (or senior) boys in a British boys' school are, as such boys will be, in pursuit of sex, sport, and...
17) Anamnesis
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Iona Lee's debut collection charts the journey of the writer, artist and performer into adulthood. Written in a unique voice, Iona playfully toys with thematic devices in this entertaining exploration of art and artifice, absence and impermanence, truth and tale telling. Characterised by a deep love of language, its music and its magic, these poems reflect on memory, the future and other hauntings. Wittily observed, this collection is an attempt to...
19) Testament
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Two plays showcasing the exciting and distinctive voice of Josh Azouz.
Buggy Baby is a horror comedy about trying to build a normal life when nothing about life is normal.
Jaden, Nur and baby Aya have escaped another country and ended up in a rotting room in London. While Nur is at college, Jaden chews leaves and has visions of giant rabbits with burning red eyes. He thinks Aya is someone else, someone dangerous. But she's just a baby. Isn't she?
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Louise Halliday, Guy's daughter, joins Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps in 1945, still a teenager. She is posted to a Field Hospital on the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany, where she encounters victims of total war and is determined to become useful in the field of mental care. She witnesses how vast tracts of that country are ruined, as was Virgil's Troy. After disturbing and daunting experiences, she returns to Norfolk and marries. She...
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