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  Widowers' Houses

  George Bernard Shaw

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  This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898; they were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences—as traditional Victorian theatre was expected to—but to raise awareness of social problems and to censure exploitation of the laboring class by the unproductive rich. In this play, Dr. Harry Trench becomes disillusioned when he discovers how his fiancee's father, Mr. Sartorius, makes his money. However, it is soon revealed that Trench's own income is far from untainted. (Summary by wildemoose and Wikipedia)Cast:Dr. Harry Trench: engineerdstMr. William de Burgh Cokane: David GoldfarbMr. Sartorius: DrakaunusBlanche Sartorius: Arielle LipshawMr. Lickcheese: Algy PugWaiter: balaPorter: David OlsonParlour Maid/Narrator: Elizabeth KlettAudio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw

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  The Seats of The Mighty

  Gilbert Parker

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  For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock's defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after Wolfe's victory over Montcalm. The material offered by the life and history of old Quebec has never been utilized for the purposes of fiction with the command of plot and incident, the mastery of local color, and the splendid realization of dramatic situations shown in this distinguished and moving romance. The illustrations preserve the atmosphere of the text, for they present the famous buildings, gates, and battle grounds as they appeared at the time of the hero's imprisonment in Quebec. (Summary by D. Appleton and Company, 1896)Cast: 
  Narrator, Captain Lancy, Sir John Godric, Scarat, Mr. Stevens, Officer Kingdon, Sailor, Midshipman: Michael ReussCaptain Robert Moray: Robert HoffmanMadamoiselle Alixe Duvarney: Amanda FridayMonsieur Doltaire: NoelBadrianGabord: Algy PugGeneral Wolfe, The Surgeon, Bishop: Martin GeesonIntendant Francois Bigot, Chevalier de la Darante, The Voice: Ron AltmanIntendant Francois Bigot, Servant, Commandant Ramesay, The Intendant's Valet, Bamboir, Sentinal, General Murray: ToddHWGovernor Marquis de Vaudreuil, John Mitchell, Grandfather: AllenJohnsVoban: DublinGothicSeigneur Duvarney: Chuck WilliamsonMadame Duvarney, Mathilde, Singers, Mother Superior: MJ FranckMarquis de Montcalm: Ernst PattynamaBabette: CaprishaPageMr. Wainfleet, Women Singers, Farmer's Son: TriciaGMadame Cournal, Madame Jamond: April GonzalesMadame Cournal: Tisha BordonJuste Duvarney, Sailor Jack, Officer: Tiffany Halla ColonnaJeanie: AvailleProphet Man, Officer Legrand: csjesi1Guard, Jean Labrouk, Sentinal at Gate 1, Sentinal at Gate 2, Sentinal at Chateau St. Louis, Soldier: Kristingj

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  Samuel Takes a Break (NHB Modern...

  Rhianna Ilube

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  It is 2019, the Year of Return, marking four hundred years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. We are at a slave castle in Ghana. Samuel is our tour guide. It's his job to give tourists a really, really authentic experience of the castle's dark history, and to do it all with a smile. Thank you, Samuel!
  The tourists are Samuel's guests, and they're on a journey of self-discovery. But they're here, standing on soil, blood and bones, asking for a selfie. They want to buy trinkets from the gift shop. Samuel would never want to hurt the tourists. And they would never want to hurt him.
  Rhianna Ilube's Samuel Takes a Break… in Male Dungeon No. 5 After a Long but Generally Successful Day of Tours is a genre-blending play about colonialism, identity and the attempt to preserve the past. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Playwriting and the Verity Bargate Award, and premiered at The Yard Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Anthony Simpson-Pike.

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  The Plough

  Richard Henry Horne

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Plough by Richard Henry Horne, published in "The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900" in 1919. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 21st, 2008.

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  Erotic Poetry Collection

  John Donne, Various Narrators

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  A collection of classic erotic poetry including 'A Last Confession' by William Butler Yeats and 'The Flea' by John Donne.

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  Soho

  Richard Scott

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  'But tonight I am super-charged, alive, looking into the eyes of / men . . .' 
  In this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott looks into the places not everyone sees or chooses to see. Against the backdrop of London's Soho, he creates an uncompromising portrait of love and shame, questioning our sense of the permissible and the perverse. Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness, too, as in a sequence re-imagining the love poetry of Verlaine.  
  The collection crescendos to the title-poem, 'Soho!', where a night stroll under the street lamps becomes a search for 'true lineage', a reclamation of stolen ancestors, hope for healing, and, above all, the finding of our truest selves.

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