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  LORENZO (NHB Modern Plays)

  Ben Targét

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  When Ben Targét was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2012 Edinburgh Comedy Awards, he was set on the path to becoming a critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning performance artist.
  Eight years later, amidst a global pandemic, he gave it all up to become the live-in carer for his uncle: an irascible octogenarian prankster called Lorenzo Wong.
  
  LORENZO is their story, a show that confronts the messiness of ageing and dying through the medium of storytelling, servitude to the audience and live carpentry, a combination not seen on the world stage since Nazareth circa 30AD.
  This book is the full script of that life-affirming show, with illustrations by Targét himself. It was directed by Adam Brace, and was premiered at Summerhall, Edinburgh, during the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was awarded a Fringe First. It subsequently transferred to Soho Theatre, London.
  'A beautiful and wise work' - Time Out
  'Very lovely… a joyful and philosophical show… a heartfelt hour about tough times and the people who quietly help us survive them' - Guardian
  'An exploration of the sorts of things that give life meaning… completely engaging… very funny and very moving… a life-affirming tale that is warm and whimsical, but fundamentally all about human connection' - WhatsOnStage
  'A moving and courageous piece of theatre' - The Scotsman
  'The ultimate celebration of life. I've never laughed and cried so much at the same show' - Everything Theatre
  'A joyous celebration of what it means to love deeply' - Fest Mag
  'A deeply affecting, tender and funny story of love and loss' - The List

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  Art and Poetry

  Jacques Maritain

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  The French philosopher’s treatise on the nature of art and poetry includes enlightening critiques of major painters and dialogues with notable writers.Originally published in 1935 with the title Frontières de la Poésie, this work by Jacques Maritain explores the nature and subjectivity of art and poetry. As a philosopher, Maritain attempts to define the two concepts, describing them as virtuous, being primarily concerned with beauty. Rather than focusing on aesthetic theory, Maritain examines his ideas at a more tangible level, including a discussion of how art and poetry are produced.Art and Poetry further develops the principles established in Maritain’s earlier work, Art and Scholasticism, which has deeply influenced contemporary artists. Those concepts are employed here to illuminate the creative works of such diverse artists as Georges Rouault, Marc Chagall, Gino Severini, and Arthur Lourié. Maritain also relates fascinating dialogues with notable authors such as André Gide, Jean Cocteau, and others.

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  The Incident Room (NHB Modern...

  David Byrne, Olivia Hirst

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  It's 1975. The Millgarth Incident Room in Leeds is the epicentre of the biggest manhunt in British history, for one of the most notorious serial killers: the Yorkshire Ripper.
  With public and political pressure mounting, hundreds of officers must work around the clock and resort to increasingly audacious attempts to end one man's campaign of terror.
  Olivia Hirst and David Byrne's 'beautifully crafted' (Guardian) play goes behind the scenes to investigate the case that nearly broke the British police force.
  The Incident Room was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, transferring to New Diorama Theatre, London, in 2020, ahead of an Off-Broadway run.
  'The ingenuity of this piece is that it gives you a pacey, clock-ticking sense of what things were like' - Telegraph
  'Tense and chilling' - Daily Mail
  'Completely compelling to watch… intelligent, imaginative and, most of all, damn interesting' - The Stage

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  Beowulf

  Seamus Heaney

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  New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award. 
   
  Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.

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  Othello

  William Shakespeare

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  Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady.  The newly-married couple fall prey to the machinations of Iago, Othello's jealous ensign, who plots to destroy their union. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)Cast:Duke of Venice: Filippo GioachinBrabantio: om123First Senator: David LawrenceSecond Senator: Lucy PerryGratiano: Denny SayersLodovico: Lars RolanderOthello: Bruce PirieCassio: Mark F. SmithIago: mbMontano: Robert KeiperRoderigo: Matthew HillClown: rashadaHerald: Celeste JohnstonDesdemona: AvailleEmilia: Elizabeth KlettBianca: Nadine Eckert-BouletFirst Gentleman: SonjaSecond Gentleman: Lars RolanderThird Gentleman: Miriam Esther GoldmanFourth Gentleman: Adam BaillieSailor: Celeste JohnstonFirst Musician: nathankFirst Officer: Elizabeth KlettMessenger: Adam BaillieNarrator: Arielle LipshawAudio edited by: Elizabeth Klett

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  Kojak - A Question Of Honor

  Arthur Korb

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  A dramatic performance by the Power Performance Players of one of Kojak's cases from the fictional files of the New York Police Department.

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