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  Death of a Salesman

  Arthur Miller

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  Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in Arthur Miller’s 1949 masterpiece, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman (Keach) is the play’s iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with success and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their station in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions. 
   
  Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in March 2011. 
   
  Directed by Eric Simonson 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring: 
  Steven Culp as Biff Loman 
  Maureen Flannigan as Letta/Jenny 
  Jason Henning as Bernard/Stanley 
  Jane Kaczmarek as Linda Loman 
  Stacy Keach as Willy Loman 
  Kathryn Meisle as The Woman 
  Tim Monsion as Uncle Ben 
  Sam McMurray as Charley 
  John Sloan as Happy Loman 
  Kate Steele as Miss Forsythe 
  Kenneth Alan Williams as Howard 
   
  Recording, Editing and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood 
  Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo

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  Kingdom of Love

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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  This is a volume of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, named after the poem 'the Kingdom of Love'. - Summary by Carolin

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  Sorted Books

  Nina Katchadourian

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  A witty and thought-provoking collection of visual poems constructed from stacks of books. Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian’s playful photographic series proves that books’ covers—or more specifically, their spines—can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and photographing groupings of two, three, four, or five books so that their titles can be read as sentences, creating whimsical narratives from the text found there. Thought-provoking, clever, and at times laugh-out-loud funny (one cluster of titles from the Akron Museum of Art’s research library consists of: Primitive Art /Just Imagine/Picasso/Raised by Wolves), Sorted Books is an enthralling collection of visual poems full of wry wit and bookish smarts. Praise for Sorted Books “Katchadourian’s project . . . takes on a weight beyond its initial novelty. It’s a love letter to books, book collecting and the act of reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle “As a longtime fan of [Katchadourian’s] long-running Sorted Books project I’m thrilled for the release of Sorted Books—a collection spanning nearly two decades of her witty and wise minimalist mediations on life by way of ingeniously arranged book spines. . . . In an era drowned in periodic death tolls for the future of the physical book, her project stands as a celebration of the spirit embedded in the magnificent materiality of the printed page.” —Brain Pickings“Katchadourian’s stacks possess an understated sophistication; they are true to the intimate nature of books and yet reveal their dramatic features and unexpected potential.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Edmund Rostand

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  Anthony Burgess' energetically witty translation of this well-loved nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously.
  This translation was first acclaimed in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production with Derek Jacobi as Cyrano. Six years later Burgess provided the sub-titles for the hit film version with Gerard Depardieu, and the sub-titles won as much praise as did the film itself!
  Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) wrote several plays which were mightily successful in their time, providing starring roles for the likes of Sarah Bernhardt and Coquelin. But only Cyrano de Bergerac still survives.
  Anthony Burgess was the author of over fifty books, among them the novel, The Clockwork Orange, as well as stage plays, screenplays and translations.

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  Girl in the Machine (NHB Modern...

  Stef Smith

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  'Do you want to live forever?
  
  YES or NO.'
  Polly and Owen have nailed it. Successful in their careers and wildly in love with each other, they feel ready to take on the world.
  But when a mysterious new technology, promising a break from the daily grind, creeps into everyone's phones, their world is turned upside down. As the line between physical and digital rapidly dissipates, Polly and Owen are forced to question whether their definitions of reality and freedom are the same.
  Girl in the Machine is a disturbing but compassionate vision of our potential digital future, and what it might mean for 'life' as we know it. The play premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2017, directed by Traverse Artistic Director Orla O'Loughlin.

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  Beowulf

  Francis Barton Gummere

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  The great drinking hall, Heorot, provides merriment for warriors and wenches alike. But it provokes only avenging rage from swamp creature Grendel. Now, in sixth-century Denmark’s darkest hour, a light of hope comes in the warrior Beowulf of the Geats. With his quest to defeat Grendel and his vengeful demon mother, Beowulf embarks on a journey from the murky lagoon to the throne of the Geats. 
  Beowulf, the Old English epic poem published anonymously centuries ago, remains one of the most influential pieces of English literature, inspiring generations of writers from J. R. R. Tolkien to George R. R. Martin.

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