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  Yes But What Is This? What Exactly?

  Ian McMillan

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  A puddle, lighthouses, the financial crisis (in three parts) or seeing a goal scored from a passing train, these typically sharp-eyed and brilliantly inventive McMillan poems often can't help being very funny, while also being, as usual, more serious than they seem, and more hurt.

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  Oedipus Rex - King of Thebes

  Sophocles

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  "Oedipus Rex" (Ancient Greek: ???????? ????????, Oidipous Tyrannos), also known as "Oedipus the King" or "Oedipus the Tyrant," is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted classicist Gilbert Murray, translator of this version of the play, rendered the title as "Oedipus, King of Thebes"). It was the second in order of Sophocles's composition of his three plays dealing with Oedipus. Thematically, however, it was the first in the trilogy's historical chronology, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone. "Oedipus the King" tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes the king of Thebes, whilst in the process unwittingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would kill his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of classic tragedy, notably containing an emphasis upon how Oedipus's own faults contribute to his downfall (as opposed to making fate the sole cause). Over the centuries, "Oedipus Rex" has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence.

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  Forty-Two Stories

  Douglas Post

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  Forty-Two Stories is a comedy about life in a high-rise condominium. A professional student from the University of Chicago is moonlighting as janitor. A stressed-out apartment manager is at odds with the residents and on the edge of a nervous breakdown. And a motley assortment of other staff members struggles with survival in the face of urban pandemonium and with the fact that one of them may be breaking into the units and stealing women’s underwear.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, Ed Begley Jr., Samantha Bennett, Dan Butler, Arye Gross, Michael Luckerman, Charlie Robinson, Tom Virtue and Fred Willard.
  Directed by Susan Booth. Recorded before a live audience at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie in June of 1998.
  
  (P)1997 L.A. Theatre Works, All Rights Reserved

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  Something Awful (NHB Modern Plays)

  Tatty Hennessy

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  Something Awful by Tatty Hennessy is a thrilling play inspired by the true-crime story of the Slenderman. Soph and her best friend Jel love scary stories and hunt for the best online. But then new girl Ellie turns up at school with one of her own.
  Something Awful was first staged at VAULT Festival, London, in 2020, and was selected for publication in Plays from VAULT 5, an anthology of five of the best plays from the festival, published by Nick Hern Books.

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  Elijah - A Fictional Reinvention...

  A LeRoy

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  A Dangerous Prophet for Dangerous Times! 
  (Author's Narration) 
  Israel. 9th-century BC. Jezebel has killed the true prophets of the Lord, and Elijah must flee her wrath. 
  But he is not alone. Embraced by a shapeshifting goddess, counseled by a great angel, he is empowered to call down fire from Heaven! 
  In the spirit of Dante, Shakespeare, and Homer, this epic poem relives the stunning miracles of the great prophet as described in the Old Testament—fed by ravens, raising the dead, commanding the rain, calling down fire from Heaven, outrunning horses, ascending to Heaven. 
  But along with all this, the author weaves a rich thread of mythological influences: shapeshifting goddesses, shamanic journeys, dueling dragons, Queen Jezebel's seductions, and dissension in the ranks of the royal bodyguard. 
  Saucy yet sacred, this timeless tale takes wing in the poet's pen, the poet's voice! 
  "Fun, interesting, and entertaining, with elements of a heroic quest, pure fantasy, and sexy romance.” 
  Karen Siddall 
  "The telling was riveting, and you don’t need to know the story ahead of time to be moved by it.” 
  Kit Donner 
  “LeRoy has a great talent for writing an epic poem, and his hypnotic voice lends grandly to the narration of the story.” 
  Amy’s Bookshelf Reviews, Top 10 Books of 2018 
  "An epic tale, Biblically based, but with considerable writer’s freedom that makes the book wholly entertaining." 
  San Francisco Review of Books

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  Betrayed

  George Packer

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  Based on the journalist-playwright’s original article in The New Yorker, Betrayed is the story of three young Iraqi translators who risk everything for America's promise of freedom while their country collapses around them.  “The clarity of the writing, the urgency of the story being told … give the play a sharp dramatic impact and a plain-spoken beauty. Painful human experience is presented here as just that. Nothing else is necessary to awaken sympathy, despair and awareness of a grave moral failure on the part of the American government.”  - New York PostAn L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jeremy Beck, Kevin Daniels, Andrea Gabriel, John Getz, Sevan Greene, Sam Kanater and Waleed F. Zuaiter.Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

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