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  Rhinoceros and Other Plays

  Eugène Ionesco

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  “With outrageous comedy” this classic of Absurdist drama “attacks the most serious subjects: blind conformity and totalitarianism, despair and death” (The New York Times). 
   
  In Rhinoceros, as in his other plays, Eugene Ionesco startles audiences with a world that invariably erupts in explosive laughter and nightmare anxiety. A rhinoceros suddenly appears in a small town, tramping through its peaceful streets. Soon there are two, then three, until the “movement” is universal. This is not an invasion of wild animals, but a transformation of average citizens into beasts, as they learn to move with the times. As the curtain comes down, only one desperate man remains. 
   
  Rhinoceros is a commentary on the absurdity of the human condition made tolerable only by self-delusion. It shows us the struggle of the individual to maintain integrity and identity in a world where all others have succumbed to the “beauty” of brute force and mindlessness.

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  Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

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  “Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”If you had the chance to seize great power for yourself and your family, what lengths would you go to to claim it as your own – and how would you live with yourself if you went against morality to do it? This is the question of Macbeth, a tragedy about seeking political gain above all else, and the consequences sacrificing one’s humanity for the sake of power.Macbeth is a general for Scotland who has been prophesied to be the future King of Scotland. Rather than wait for this prophecy to take hold of its own accord, and after taking the advice of his power-hungry wife, he murders the current king and takes his place. But it doesn’t take long for tremendous guilt and fear to take hold of him, and turn his reign into one of tyranny and brutality as he and Lady Macbeth commit more and more crimes to avoid the consequences coming for them. As Macbeth’s streak of brutality and war continues, he believes himself to be invulnerable, which ultimately leads to his downfall.Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s well-known tragedies, and despite superstitions about it being “cursed,” is still often performed and presented for audiences in the modern era.

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  Momentous Words

  Edward Rowland Sill

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Momentous Words by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 23rd, 2008.

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  Separation: A History

  Christine Chia

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  The sequel to The Law of Second Marriages, the best-selling and critically acclaimed poetry book by Christine. With "terrifying sparseness and intensity", as Cyril Wong observes, Christine threads together stories of the Separation between Singapore and Malaysia with the separation between her parents. Her searing vision, ambitious and intimate, opens up emotional spaces in unlikely places. 
   
  "Christine's writing balances a journalist's clarity with a poet's desire to color and invent. In this boldly innovative book, she tells how the history of a family and that of a nation curiously come to mirror each other. By alternating poems with news clippings, photos, and google searches, she also creates a dialogue between public and private, personal and political, fact and fantasy. At times, the effect is poignant, at times playful, but in every instance, Christine proves she knows how "to love/ like an economist" and make every word shine." - Elaine Equi, author of Click and Clone

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  Top Secret - The Battle for the...

  Geoffrey Cowan, Leroy Aarons

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  The original version of LATW’s groundbreaking docudrama about the Pentagon Papers, the infamous classified documents about US involvement in the Vietnam War, and how The Washington Post fought the government to publish them.  
  Includes a 1991 panel discussion with journalists Ben Bradlee,  Peter Braestrup, Robert Maynard, Carla Robbins, Robert Scheer, and George Wilson 
  Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica in March, 1991. 
  Directed by Tom Moore 
  Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg 
  Philip Abbot as Chal Roberts 
  Irene Arranga as Bailiff/Clerk 
  Edward Asner as Ben Bradlee 
  Ed Begley, Jr. as George Wilson 
  Jack Coleman as Eugene Patterson/Carl Coogan 
  Richard Dysart as Narrator 
  Hector Elizondo as Fritz Beebee 
  Bo Foxworth as The Soldier 
  Robert Foxworth as Ben Bagdikian 
  Robin Gammell as Murray Marder 
  Gerrit Graham as Robert Mardian 
  Howard Hesseman as Brian SullivanStacy Keach as John MitchellDarrell Larson as Darryl Cox 
  Nan Martin as Meg GreenfieldMarsha Mason as Katherine Graham 
  Richard Riehle as Lamont VanderhallHarry Shearer as Richard Nixon 
  Joe Spano as Ron Ziegler 
  James Whitmore as Judge Martin Peel 
  Harris Yulin as Henry Kissinger 
  Stage Manager and Sound Effects, Barnaby Harris. Recording Engineer, Steve Barker.

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  A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain...

  Sami Ibrahim

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  Elif shears sheep for a rich landowner. Every other waking hour she spends queuing outside the palace, hoping that the King will let her live within the city walls. She comes from a faraway land. She is searching for sanctuary. And this is what we call a 'hostile environment'.
  Sami Ibrahim's play A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain is a poetic fable about an impenetrable immigration system that mirrors our own. It premiered in Paines Plough's Roundabout in 2022, including a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as a co-production between Paines Plough and Rose Theatre, Kingston, in association with the Gate Theatre, London.

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