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  The Brothers Karamazov and The...

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Fishelson

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  Dostoyevsky’s titanic novels are transformed into spellbinding full cast drama by playwright David Fishelson. In The Brothers Karamazov, the passionate Karamazov brothers spring to life, led by their rogue of a father, who entertains himself by drinking, womanizing, and pitting his three sons against one another. In The Idiot, we meet the childlike Prince Myshkin as he returns to the decadent social whirl of St. Petersburg. The two most beautiful women in town compete for his affections in a duel that grows increasingly dangerous.
  
  Two L.A. Theatre Works full cast performances featuring:
  
  The Brothers Karamazov
  John de Lancie as Ivan Karamazov
  Sharon Gless as Grushenka
  Arye Gross as Alyosha Karamazov
  Harry Hamlin as Dmitry Karamazov
  Kaitlin Hopkins as Katerina
  Joseph Mascolo as Fyodor
  Richard Hoyt Miller as Miusov/Waiter/Mussyalovich/Judge Sergeant
  John Randolph as Zossima/Visitor
  John Rubinstein as Smerdyakov
  Tom Virtue as Father Joseph/Pawnbroker/Vrublevsky/Prosecutor/Coachman
  Ping Wu as Rakitin/Father Paissy/Innkeeper/Defense Attorney
  
  Directed by David Fishelson. Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica in June of 1994.
  
  The Idiot
  Edward Asner as General Yepanchin
  Kate Asner as Nastasya Filipovna
  Angela Bettis as Aglaya
  Arye Gross as Ganya Ivolgin
  John Kapelos as Lebedev
  Robert Machray as General Ivolgin/Totsky
  Jon Matthews as Parfyon Rogozhin
  Johanna McKayas Varya/Daeya
  Paul Mercier as Prince Sherbatsky/Denisov
  Laurel Moglen as Adelaida
  Michael Rivkin as Eugene Radomsky
  Peggy Roeder as Mrs. Yepanchin/Mrs. Ivolgin/Princess Belokonsky
  Douglas Weston as Prince Myshkin
  
  Directed by David Fishelson. Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Suites, Santa Monica in February of 1997.

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  Prufrock and Other Oberservations

  T.S. Eliot

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  Prufrock and Other Observations is the title of a pamphlet of twelve poems by T. S. Eliot published in 1917 by The Egoist, a small publishing firm run by Dora Marsden, an English suffragette and philosopher of language. Most of the poems had been published earlier in literary magazines, most notably the “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, which was Eliot’s first published poem and appeared in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Modern Verse at the urging of Ezra Pound, overseas editor for the magazine. Prufrock is a dramatic interior monologue of a modern urban man trapped in an inertia of isolation and indecision that has been described as a “drama of literary anguish”. The poem was influenced by The Divine Comedy and is peppered with references to the Bible, Shakespeare plays, and the works of metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell and the French symbolist poets.  It was considered outlandish when it first appeared.  One anonymous London reviewer commented that "The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr. Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone, even to himself. They certainly have no relation to poetry." As it happens, Prufrock and the companion poems in this volume helped effect a paradigm shift away from Romanticism and Georgian lyrics to what came to be called Modernism and introduced one of the most distinctive voices and recognized voices in modern literature.

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  Conversations with Good Men

  Bethel Swift

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  Conversations with Good Men is a three-act drama, written in verse, that takes readers on a journey of love, longing, heartbreak, and hope. Swift’s poems compassionately explore the concept of man’s “goodness” in addition to her own struggles as a single female navigating the world of dating and relationships while contending with anxiety, depression, sexual assault, survivorship, and growth. Fans of poets from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to E.E. Cummings, to Rupi Kaur and Charly Cox will appreciate Bethel Swift’s brevity, wit, transparency, and heart in this collection.

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  Songs of Innocence and Experience

  William Blake

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  William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was impossible without experience. Songs of Innocence contains poems either written from the perspective of children or written about them. Many of the poems appearing in Songs of Innocence have a counterpart in Songs of Experience, with quite a different perspective of the world.    The disastrous end of the French Revolution caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind, explaining much of the despair found in Songs of Experience. Blake also believed that children lost their innocence through exploitation and from a religious community which put dogma before mercy. He did not, however, believe that children should be kept from becoming experienced entirely. In truth, he believed that children should indeed become experienced but through their own discoveries, which is reflected in a number of these poems.    (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Annie Coleman)

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  Far Away

  Caryl Churchill

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  A brilliant and unsettling play from one of the UK's leading dramatists. Premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2000.
  At the opening of the play, a young girl is questioning her aunt about having seen her uncle hitting people with an iron bar; by the end, several years later, the whole world is at war - including birds and animals. Far Away is a howl of anguish at the increasing – and increasingly accepted – levels of inhumanity in a world seemingly perpetually involved in conflict.
  'You know you are in the hands of a master' The Sunday Times
  'Churchill was expected to produce something explosive, but... she has exceeded the critics' highest expectations' The Observer

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  The Luath Burns Companion

  John Cairney

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  This is not another complete works collection but a personal selection of sixty favourite poems, songs and other works, chosen by the Man Who Played Burns , as well as an introduction that explores Burns' life and influences, his triumphs and tragedies. The Luath Burns Companion is a unique introduction to the works of ona of Scotland's best loved poets by a man with an obvious love and depth of understanding for Burns and his work. This selection reveals the drama, passion, pathos and humour that make Burns's work what it is. He was always a forward thinking man and remains a writer for the future.

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