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  The House Party (NHB Modern Plays)

  August Strindberg

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  A wild party. A friendship. A cherished pet. And a night that changes everything.
  It's Julie's eighteenth birthday, and she's throwing a party in her father's extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her long-suffering best friend Christine is trying to pick up the pieces. As the revellers pile into the booze, down in the kitchen Christine and her boyfriend Jon – son of Julie's cleaner – clear up and dare to dream of the future.
  But as the volume goes up and the shots go down, Julie concocts a twisted cocktail of privilege, desire and destruction.
  Laura Lomas's play The House Party spins Strindberg's classic play Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for today's generation. It was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2024, co-produced with Headlong in association with Frantic Assembly, and directed by Holly Race Roughan.
  'Dazzling… brings Strindberg's classic searing into the 21st century, a blazing hot ménage à trois that transforms the stage into a cauldron of desire, resentment and revenge' - Broadway World
  'Fresh, ferociously intense and visually striking… this searing, emotionally charged adaptation puts a convincing contemporary twist on the dark story of class conflict, self-destruction and seething sexual tension' - The Stage
  'Ferocious… blows the roof off the theatre… Laura Lomas has brought the classic play bang up to date… bracingly relevant and searingly shocking' - WhatsOnStage

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  Heavy Weather (NHB Platform Plays)

  Lizzie Nunnery

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  'The sky. The water. The air. It won't keep snapping back. You can't keep refreshing the screen. A lie is not a white lie, or a half-lie or a false truth or fake news… It's a lie and we call it a lie, or everything's cracking underneath us.'
  Mona is a young woman on the edge. All she sees is the Earth falling apart, but no one really seems to care. Amidst the chaos of competing and contradictory voices, she sets off on a kaleidoscopic journey to find solutions for the planet – and the truth about her family – in the hope that everything might start to make sense again.
  Lizzie Nunnery's Heavy Weather is a powerful, timely play about one girl taking control of her destiny in a world teetering on the brink. It is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly, or all, female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.

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  Wild Embers - Poems of Rebellion...

  Nikita Gill

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  Discover a powerful and relatable poetry collection of love, loss, and healing -- perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Amanda Lovelace. In this magical poetry collection, Nikita Gill unflinchingly explores the fire in every woman and the emotions that lie deep in one's soul. Featuring rewritten fairytale heroines, goddess wisdom, and verse that burns with magnificent beauty, this raw and powerful collection is an explosion of femininity, empowerment, and personal growth. In these words, readers will find the magnificent energy to spark resistance and revolution.

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  Holy Sonnets (version 2)

  John Donne

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  The Holy Sonnets—also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631). The sonnets were first published in 1633—two years after Donne's death.  Summary from Wikipedia.

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  The Supine Cobbler

  Jill Connell

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  A contemporary clinical abortion in the spirit of a Western.
  
   
  The Doctor introduces the gang: The Supine Cobbler (wanted), her estranged sister (dead by hanging), her former best friend (missing, presumed dead) and her apprentice (a turncoat). Together they negotiate integrity in a lawless world. The Supine Cobbler is an unsentimental legend and a true story. It is a hero myth for girls.
  
   
  Praisefor the productions of The Supine Cobbler:
  
   
  ‘The show is like nothing you’ve ever seen before.’
  
   
  – Theatre Reader
  
   
  ‘Jill Connell … is consistently one of the most innovative playwrights in the country.’
  
   
  – Vue Weekly
  
   
  ‘The Supine Cobbler is brilliant, subversive and deeply hilarious. The play is about an abortion – but also: waiting, haunting, cheating, hurting, daring and the private cultivation of one’s humanity. It is singular and surprising and epic and lean as Bowie. You cannot help but talk about this play. It is the work of a lover and a rebel. To miss it, would be to miss a master in her early bloom.’
  
   
  – Claudia Dey, author of Trout Stanley and Stunt
  
   
  ‘I love this absolutely idiosyncratic play. It’s very funny, moving and sharp, and the only work of art about abortion I can think of that doesn’t sentimentalize or simplify the experience, but gets the strangeness and banality of it exactly right.’
  
   
  – Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?

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  Jean Valjean; or The Shadow of...

  Harry Clifford Fulton

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  A late 19th-century stage adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables in English, The Shadow of the Law dramatizes the struggles of Hugo's legendary characters: Jean Valjean, the former convict; his relentless pursuer, Javert; Fantine, the tragic mother; her daughter Cosette; the greedy Thenardiers; the doomed revolutionaries. (Summary by Elizabeth Barr)CastNarrator/Prouvaire: Elizabeth KlettJean Valjean: Max KorlingeJavert: drakaunusThenardier: Algy PugFather Fauchelevent/Grandfather Gillenormand: ToddMonseigneur Bienvenu: Rick RodstromMarius Pontmercy: Eden Rea-HedrickEnjolras: Larry WilsonPetit Gervais: Frances BrownGavroche: Ernst PattynamaBabit: Bob NeufeldDoctor/Madame Magloire: Beth ThomasFantine: Amanda FridayCosette: Charlotte Duckett and Emily JonesEponine: Elizabeth BarrMadame Thenardier: Arielle LipshawMlle. Gillenormande/Gendarme: Kristin GjerløwMlle. Baptistine: Lynne ThompsonSimplice: Etel BussNun: Sarah ParshallBoy/Servant: Michele EatonGuardsman: David OlsonInsurgent: RapunzelinaAudio edited by Elizabeth Barr

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