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  Goats (NHB Modern Plays)

  Liwaa Yazji

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  In a small town in Syria, soldiers are celebrated as heroes and grieving families are nourished on propaganda.
  As coffins pile up, a local party leader decides on a radical compensation scheme: a goat for each son martyred.
  Goats is a major new work by Syrian playwright and documentary film-maker Liwaa Yazj, translated by Katharine Halls.
  Developed as part of the Royal Court International Department's long-term project with writers from Syria and Lebanon, the play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, on 24 November 2017, in a production directed by Hamish Pirie.

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  Fifty Shades of the Mystic East...

  Rumi, Wu Zao, Du Fu, Rabia al...

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  Whilst the notion of the Mystic East and Oriental wisdom was greatly romanticised by the Victorians and others, the shadow of Colonialism has smudged the view.  These great cultures are some of humanity’s earliest, their works, their art some of its most daring and most accomplished.   
   
  In these 50 poems across 50 poets we hope, at least in part, to rebalance our view of this subject.  We begin in the 6th century BC and travel with a poet’s words and eyes across India, China, Persia and many other places in between.  The geography and culture may shift to different hues but the flavours, notions, musings and truths of these works bring both simplicity, majesty and beauty to these lands and peoples.   
   
  Let us journey with poets such as Lao Tzu, Rumi, Mirabai, Gabirol and Guru Nanak on a journey to seek, to discover and find meaning in their verse that is so relevant to our lives today.    
  1 - Fifty Shades of the Mystic East - An Introduction  
  2 - Thiruppavi (An Extract) by Andal 
  3 - An Ocean Without Shore by Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi 
  4 - All Pervading Consciousness by Farid ud-Din Attar 
  5 - Because Thou Art by Sri Aurobindo 
  6 - Kalam - I  by Sultan Bahu 
  7 - If You Are Seeking Allah by Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai 
  8 - Shikshashtakam by Chaitanya 
  9 - The Value of Friendship by Confucius 
  10 - Amrutanubhav (An Extract) by Dnyaneshwar 
  11 - The Mockingbird by Dr Fu 
  12 - The Song of Chess by Abraham Ibn Ezra 
  13 - Beauty of Truth by Khwaja Ghulam Farid 
  14 - The Prelude to Shah-Nameh (The Book of Kings) by Ferdowsi 
  15 - A Song of Redemption by Solomon Ibn Gabirol 
  16 - Navada Bhakti in an Untainted Heart by Gangasati 
  17 - The Walled Garden by Sanai Ghaznavi 
  18 - Song of the Flower by Khalil Gibran 
  19 - The Lute Will Beg by Hafiz 
  20 - Song of Loneliness by Jehudah Halevi 
  21 - I Do Not Cease Swimming by Mansur Al Hallaj 
  22 - The Power of the Pen by Samuel HaNagid 
  23 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal 
  24 - Acceptance by Janabai 
  25 - The Guest Is Inside You and Also Inside Me by Kabir 
  26 - Tears Ere Thy Death by Khansa 
  27 - All Things Pass by Lao Tzu 
  28 - Vakh - If in the Flux of Time by Lal Ded 
  29 - Alone Looking at the Mountain by Li Po 
  30 - They All Err by Al-Ma'arri 
  31 - Would a Circling Surface Vulture by Akka Mahadevi 
  32 - Pointless It Is to Lament by Narsinh Mehta 
  33 - Go To That Impenetrable Realm by Mirabai 
  34 - The True Name is Like Sandalwood by Namdev 
  35 - Tiruvasiriyam by Nammalvar 
  36 - Dhanasri Measure by Guru Nanak 
  37 - Dream Fable by Rabia al Basri 
  38 - Where Shall I Go by Ramananda 
  39 - The Name Alone Is the Truth by Ravidas 
  40 - Only Breath by Jalaluddin Rumi 
  41 - One Body by Saadi 
  42 - His Ears Ringeth by Sambandar 
  43 - Drive Me Out of My Mind by Ramprasad Sen 
  44 - Who Attains the Secret of Unity. From the Mystic Rose Garden by Mahmud Shabistari 
  45 - Neither Hindu Nor Muslim by Bulleh Shah 
  46 - A Life Without Love by Shams Tabrizi 
  47 - The Journey by Tagore 
  48 - The Secret of Peace by Tukaram 
  49 - Hanuman Chalisa by Tulsidas 
  50 - On the Stork Tower by Wang Zhihuan 
  51 - Old Lines and New Songs by Wu Zao

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  Twelve Angry Men

  Reginald Rose

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  Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a 19 year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father. A seemingly open and shut case turns complicated, igniting passions and hidden prejudices.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Dan Castellaneta as Juror #5Jeffrey Donovan as Juror #8Hector Elizondo as Juror #10Robert Foxworth as Juror #3James Gleason as Juror #2Kevin Kilner as Juror #6Richard Kind as Juror #7Alan Mandell as Juror #9Rob Nagle as Juror #12Armin Shimerman as Juror #4Joe Spano as Juror #11Steve Vinovich as Foreman/Juror #1                                  Directed by John de Lancie. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

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  Voir Dire

  Joe Sutton

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  A highly -placed school official is accused of buying drugs on the street. Is he an out-of-control addict or a victim of discrimination? Voir Dire - a legal term meaning “to say what is true”- is the story of the racially-mixed jurors who will decide the official’s fate.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Christine Avila, Barbara Bosson, Shannon Cochran, Ella Joyce, Kevin Kilner and Amy Pietz.Directed by Ken Frankel. Recorded before a live audience.

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  The Viewing Party

  Yong Shu Hoong

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  Singapore Literature Prize winner Yong Shu Hoong’s latest book features more than just poetry. There is also a ghostly tale at its core, complete with prose poems and micro fiction of exactly 100 words each, as well as annotated excerpts from an abandoned work. 
   
  In this viewing party, readers are invited to take a peek into the domain of death and cinema. You are part of a mob of dispassionate onlookers. Sometimes, you get to play the voyeuristic judge. 
   
  Winner of the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize for English Poetry 
   
  “There’s a warm easiness to Yong’s voice that’s balanced by a sharpness of insight. He cuts through the layers of familial and social habit to the unseen images and urges that give the mundane the sheen of the numinous. If the book is a viewing party, Yong is a genial and attentive host, inviting us in to absorbing scenes of everyday curiosity and surprise.” 
  -Jen Crawford, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Creative Writing Programme at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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  The Interrogation - Poems

  Michael Bazzett

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  This surreal, darkly humorous, and relentlessly probing poetry collection resides at “the disorienting juncture between fairy tale and nightmare” (Publishers Weekly). 
   
  Suffused in psychology, uncertainty, and desire, Michael Bazzett’s The Interrogation is an unsparingly honest catechism of the self. In the title poem, a speaker—at once questioner and questioned—insistently asks: Who? What? Where? Why? Why our cruelty? Why our loneliness? And how do we connect? 
   
  These poems read like disorienting fables and seemingly familiar folktales. In them, we are escorted to dreamlike cities, brought into the rich earth under a simple mattress, and drawn inside the mind, where “Nobody fails at meditation / like I do.”

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