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  Spinning Into Butter

  Rebecca Gilman

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  What happens when conflicting emotions inhabit the same space? When a new vocabulary is devised to disguise the same old thoughts? In this barbed satire of political correctness, Rebecca Gilman’s provocative characters spin a web of their own, revealing the latent racism that may lurk beneath the porcelain veneer of a liberated conscience.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jordan Baker, Daniel Chacon, Michael Cotter, Patricia Fraser, Kevin Kilner, Charles Kimbrough and Stuart Pankin.

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  Fifty Shades of London - 50 of...

  Samuel Johnson, Ella Wheeler...

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  This vast and teeming metropolis that many of us call home sits astride a small river on a small island anchored off the north-west shores of Europe.   Yet its very name ‘London’ is famed, admired and known worldwide.  Its growth from hamlet, town, fortification, city and centre of Empire is one of rich reward.  Within its ever-changing borders that are forever moving outwards are gems of architecture across cultures, times and influences that exist in very few other places.  Its diaspora of peoples and cultures overlap, thrive, compete and influence this leviathan of a world city.  
     
  1 - Fifty Shades of London - An Introduction 
  2 - A Ballad of London by Richard Le Gallienne 
  3 - London by Joanna Baillie 
  4 - Dear Old London by Eugene Field 
  5 - The London Bobby by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  6 - London Types - Bus Driver by William Ernest Henley 
  7 - The Cockney Soul by Henry Lawson 
  8 - London Roses by Willa Silbert Cather 
  9 - Behind the Scenes. Empire by Arthur Symons 
  10 - A London Fete by Coventry Patmore 
  11 - London Hast Thou Accursed Me by Henry Howard 
  12 - London by William Blake 
  13 - A London Thoroughfare. 2 AM by Amy Lowell 
  14 - Impression de Nuit (London) by Lord Alfred Douglas 
  15 - London, My Beautiful by F S Flint 
  16 - London in July by Amy Levy 
  17 - A London Plane Tree by Amy Levy 
  18 - In a London Square by Arthur Hugh Clough 
  19 - London I by Julian Bell 
  20 - London Poets by Amy Levy 
  21 - Chatterton in Holborn by Ernest Rhys 
  22 - West London by Matthew Arnold 
  23 - Ballade of the 'Cheshire Cheese' in Fleet Street by T W Rolleston 
  24 - Hyde Park At Night Before the War; Clerks by D H Lawrence 
  25 - London After The Great Fire 1666 by John Dryden 
  26 - His Tears To Thamesis by Robert Herrick 
  27 - The Thames At Mortlake by Ben Jonson 
  28 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth 
  29 - London Interior by Harold Munro 
  30 - Compensation by Arthur Conan Doyle 
  31 - In A London Drawingroom by George Eliot 
  32 - Freedom in a Suburb by Ernest Radford 
  33 - Death In A London Lodging by Richard Le Gallienne 
  34 - In Westminster Abbey, October 12th 1892 by John Todhunter 
  35 - On the Tombs At Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont 
  36 - Scenes In London I - Piccadilly by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  37 - Scenes In London II - Oxford Street by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  38 - Scenes In London III - The Savoyard In Grosvenor Squeare by Letitia Elizabeth Landon 
  39 - London Snow by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  40 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman 
  41 - Piccadily Circus At Night; Street Walkers by D. H.  Lawrence 
  42 - Letter From Town; on a Grey Morning in March by D H Lawrence 
  43 - The Call to London by Radclyffe Hall 
  44 - The Foggy Dew by Katharine Tynan 
  45 - The Little London Girl by Kate Greenaway 
  46 - Farewell to London in the Year 1715 by Alexander Pope 
  47 - Written in London on the 19th March 1796 by Matilda Betham 
  48 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton 
  49 - His Return to London by Robert Herrick 
  50 - A Satire Against the Citizens of London by Henry Howard 
  51 - London, A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal by Samuel Johnson

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  The Seagull

  Anton Chekhov

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  Translated by Christopher Hampton. Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is considered one of his most haunting and atmospheric character studies. A would-be playwright is at war with his egoistic mother while the town has become intoxicated by a sensational author. And as the alluring newcomer steals away Kosta’s only love, their new romance could have devastating consequences.
  
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance. Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Translated by Christopher Hampton. Recorded by L.A. Theatre Works before a live audience.
  
  Public Domain (P)2013 L.A. Theatre Works

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  Lydie Breeze

  John Guare

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  “Two previously produced full-length plays . . . welded into a seamless whole . . . is wonderful theater and satisfying, compelling reading.” —Booklist 
   
  From award winning playwright John Guare, an extensive reworking of his two 1981 plays about a nineteenth-century commune in Nantucket. Lydie Breeze is a two-play, six-hour cycle about four seekers who come to the island to create a special model for a better world in the ashes of the Civil War and end up as a model for the corruption of twentieth-century idealism. The result is an almost surreal saga of American life, with allegorical meditations on the contradictions and interconnectedness of all things and the chaotic nature of the universe.

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  The Poetry of Adelaide Anne Procter

  Adelaide Anne Proctor

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  Adelaide Anne Procter was born on 30th October, 1825 at 25 Bedford Square in the Bloomsbury district of London.  Her literary career began whilst still a teenager.  Many of her poems were published by the great Charles Dickens in his periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round before being later published in book form. 
  A voracious reader, Procter was largely self-taught, though she did study at Queen's College in Harley Street in 1850.  Her interest in poetry grew from an early age.  
  By 1853 she was submitting pieces to Dickens's Household Words under her pseudonym Mary Berwick, electing that this way her work would be judged for its own worth rather than on the friendship between her father and Dickens.  Dickens didn’t learn of her true identity for over a year.  
  ‘Minstering Angels’ was to be the beginning of a long and mutually beneficial relationship of publishing in Dickens’ journals that would eventually reach 73 poems in House words together with a further 7 poems in All the Year Round, most of which were collected and later published into her first two volumes of poetry, both entitled Legends and Lyrics.   
  Procter was also the editor of the journal Victoria Regia, which became the showpiece of the Victoria Press, a venture hoping to promote the employment of women in all manner of trades and professions.  
  Procter’s health failed in 1862. Dickens and others suggested that this illness was due to her extensive and exhausting schedule of charity work.  
  An attempt to improve her health by taking a cure at Malvern failed.  
  Adelaide Anne Procter died on 3rd February 1864 of tuberculosis. She had been bed-ridden for almost a year. Procter was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

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  Everything to Play For: 99 Poems...

  John McAuliffe

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  Sometimes sport takes over Irish life: we meet up at the match everyone is going to, or we stay in touch by talking about sport. And sport's the stuff of family lore – the wrong turn at Ballybrit that led to Connemara instead of the Galway Races, the ex who came good with tickets, the All-Ireland winner throwing an American football on the beach. The poems collected in this anthology know sport, and they respond to the way that sport in Ireland forms our alternative history, viewed from the stands, the sideline, and the centre circle.
  
  The first ever anthology of sports poems to be published in Ireland, Everything to Play For is edited by poet John McAuliffe and includes a foreword by World Champion athlete Sonia O'Sullivan, one of Ireland's best-loved sporting heroes. With poems on all major sporting disciplines, Everything to Play For brings together the work of many of Ireland's leading poets including Paul Durcan, Vona Groarke, Seamus Heaney, Rita Ann Higgins, Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice, Sinéad Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Enda Wyley, and many more.

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