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  King of Alsander (Dramatic Reading)

  James Elroy Flecker

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  First published in 1914, the King of Alsander is the only novel by James Elroy Flecker, best known as a poet, but also a noted scholar, linguist and diplomat.   Flecker's love of learning, language and travel, and his keen satirical insight into politics are all in evidence in this phantasmagoric tale.  As the author himself describes it:  Here is a tale all romance - a tale such as only a Poet can write for you, O appreciative and generous Public - a tale of madmen, kings, scholars, grocers, consuls, and Jews: a tale with two heroines, both of an extreme and indescribable beauty: a tale of the South and of sunshine, wherein will be found disguises, mysteries, conspiracies, fights, at least one good whipping, and plenty of blood and love and absurdity: a very old sort of tale: a tale as joyously improbable as life itself. - Summary by Algy PugCast list:Norman Price: Phil BensonJohn Oggs: Phil BensonLabourer: Phil BensonMrs Gaffekin: Michele EatonNancy: Michele EatonPeronella: Michele EatonMalsprita: Michele EatonGuard: Michele EatonCrowd: Michele EatonVicar: Patrick WallaceOld Man: Patrick WallaceWilliam Price: Patrick WallaceCanthrop: Patrick WallaceCesano: Patrick WallaceWizened Man: Patrick WallaceConsul: Patrick WallaceVorza: Patrick WallaceColonel: Patrick WallaceVicar’s Daughter: Eden Rea-HedrickWidow Prasko: Eden Rea-HedrickShopkeeper: Eden Rea-HedrickPresident: Eden Rea-HedrickArnolfo: Eden Rea-HedrickIanthe: Eden Rea-HedrickDrakina: Eden Rea-HedrickCuvas: Eden Rea-HedrickPeter Smith: Eden Rea-HedrickLady: Eden Rea-HedrickJohn Gaffekin: Alan WeymanKing: Alan WeymanButler: Alan WeymanDoctor: Alan WeymanClerk: Alan WeymanMakzelo: Alan WeymanFather Algio: Alan WeymanCaptain of the Guard: Alan Weyma

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  Stanley Cook: Selected Poems

  Stanley Cook

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  Stanley
  
  Cook (19221991) was much admired in his lifetime but never achieved the
  
  popular audience and critical reputation his work deserved. Cook went his own
  
  way, sanguine about the fashions of the poetry establishment, and quietly
  
  writing some of the most readable, intelligent and vividly achieved poems of
  
  our time.

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  All the Way Home

  Ayub Khan Din

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  A deeply emotional comedy drama from the author of East is East, exploring the relationships we have with our roots, and with those that we love but don't always understand.
  Bonfire Night. Salford, 2002. A disparate group of warring siblings gather at the family home under the shadow of impending loss.
  Amidst the cut and thrust of spiky Salford banter, long harboured resentments rise to the surface, and loyalties are tested as family bonds unite and divide, unravel and unwind.
  All the Way Home premiered at the Lowry in Salford in 2011.
  'Khan-Din is writing from first-hand experience... he has plainly retained an ear for salty Salfordian speech... and there are some terrific one-liners' - Telegraph

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  Romeo and Juliet (version 2)

  William Shakespeare

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  Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two "star-crossed lovers" from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are mortal enemies. Braving parental opposition, the teenage lovers marry in secret, with the aid of the well-intentioned Friar Lawrence. Yet, as Shakespeare has often observed, the course of true love does not run smoothly, and Romeo and Juliet must risk death to be together. (summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast:Escalus: David MuncasterParis: mbMontague: Chris HughesCapulet: Andy MinterOld Man and Friar Lawrence: Alan Davis DrakeRomeo: Simon TaylorMercutio: Andrew LebrunBenvolio: David NicolTybalt: Joshua B. ChristensenFriar John: Sean McKinleyBalthasar: Scott D. FarquarSampson: EstherGregory: David O'ConnellPeter and Second Watchman: GesineAbraham and First Watchman: CalibanApothecary: Lucy PerryFirst Musician and Second Citizen: Laurie Anne WaldenSecond Musician: om123Third Musician: Aaron WaldenChorus: ancillaPage: C. J. NowakLady Montague: Christie NowakLady Capulet: Cori SamuelJuliet: Elizabeth KlettNurse: Kristin HughesFirst Servant: Abigail BartelsSecond Servant: Lizzie DriverThird Watchman: bryfeeFirst Citizen: Rhys LawsonNarrator: David LawrenceAudio Edited by:  Elizabeth Klett

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  Black Eagle Child - The...

  Ray Young Bear

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  Mixing prose and poetry, ancient traditions and modern sensibilities, this brilliant, profane, and poignant coming-of-age story is a masterpiece of Native American literature At a Thanksgiving party held in a Bureau of Indian Affairs gymnasium, the elders of the Meskwaki Settlement in central Iowa sip coffee while the teenagers plot their escape. Edgar Bearchild and Ted Facepaint, too broke to join their friends for a night of drinking in a nearby farm town, decide to attend a ceremonial gathering of the Well-Off Man Church, a tribal sect with hallucinogenic practices. After partaking of the congregation’s sacred star medicine, Edgar receives a prophetic vision and comes to a newfound understanding of his people’s past and present that will ultimately reshape the course of his life.   Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s, Black Eagle Child is the story of Edgar’s passage from boyhood to manhood, from his youthful misadventures with Ted, to his year at prestigious liberal arts college in California, to his return to Iowa and success as a poet. Deftly crossing genre boundaries and weaving together a multitude of tones and images—from grief to humor, grape Jell-O to supernatural strobe lights—it is also an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a Native American in the modern world.

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  Drive

  Elaine Sexton

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  Poems exploring our most fragile points of connection to lovers and family, to the living and the dead, and to oneself, one's own life's work--with the care and wisdom of one who knows these roads.'Silently / pulling for itself, / the will wants the body to // give it what it wants,' Sexton writes in 'Between the Car and the Sea,' at once a description of a carís body propelling her onward, and of the poet herself, the one behind the wheel of this masterful fourth collection. In an extraordinary act of volition, the author does not stop at the trope of ambition, but powers instead toward the urgent concerns of the will, and intention.

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