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  LORENZO (NHB Modern Plays)

  Ben Targét

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  When Ben Targét was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2012 Edinburgh Comedy Awards, he was set on the path to becoming a critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning performance artist.
  Eight years later, amidst a global pandemic, he gave it all up to become the live-in carer for his uncle: an irascible octogenarian prankster called Lorenzo Wong.
  
  LORENZO is their story, a show that confronts the messiness of ageing and dying through the medium of storytelling, servitude to the audience and live carpentry, a combination not seen on the world stage since Nazareth circa 30AD.
  This book is the full script of that life-affirming show, with illustrations by Targét himself. It was directed by Adam Brace, and was premiered at Summerhall, Edinburgh, during the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it was awarded a Fringe First. It subsequently transferred to Soho Theatre, London.
  'A beautiful and wise work' - Time Out
  'Very lovely… a joyful and philosophical show… a heartfelt hour about tough times and the people who quietly help us survive them' - Guardian
  'An exploration of the sorts of things that give life meaning… completely engaging… very funny and very moving… a life-affirming tale that is warm and whimsical, but fundamentally all about human connection' - WhatsOnStage
  'A moving and courageous piece of theatre' - The Scotsman
  'The ultimate celebration of life. I've never laughed and cried so much at the same show' - Everything Theatre
  'A joyous celebration of what it means to love deeply' - Fest Mag
  'A deeply affecting, tender and funny story of love and loss' - The List

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  Selected poems of William...

  William Wordsworth

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  William Wordsworth was an English poet, born in England on 7th April 1770. He was a Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads in 1798. His most famous work, The Prelude is considered by many to be the crowning achievement of English romanticism. He died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850, leaving his wife Mary to publish The Prelude three months later.

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  Symphony in Yellow

  Oscar Wilde

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 18, 2012.Oscar Wilde, an Irish author who lived for much of his life in London, is most famous for his witty, satirical plays. He also worked for some time as a journalist.Much of his poetry was written early in his career, with a notable exception being The Ballad of Reading Gaol. This poem, Symphony in Yellow, is probably one of his earlier works; in it he describes London in a flattering manner something he was disinclined to do after his trial and imprisonment.(Summary by Lucy Perry)

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  Fleabag: The Original Play (NHB...

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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  'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex. I just can't stop thinking about it.'
  The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life.
  Phoebe Waller-Bridge's debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. It premiered at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Phoebe herself, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London, for several successful runs, followed by a UK tour.
  It won a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh, the Most Promising New Playwright and Best Female Performance at the Off West End Theatre Awards, The Stage Award for Best Solo Performer and the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. It received a Special Commendation in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. In 2016 it was turned into a wildly successful and 'utterly riveting' (Guardian) BBC television series.
  This edition also features an introduction by the author.
  'Believe the hype, Waller-Bridge's raw writing… really is as good as everyone says' - The Stage
  'Sucker-punch funny... I've never seen a play quite like it' - Scotsman
  'frank and sometimes brutally funny... devastatingly good' - The Times
  'blessed with a rare and compelling life force... deliciously dirty and scabrously funny' - Evening Standard

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  the terrible

  Daniel Sluman

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  Daniel Sluman's bleak brilliance in the terrible is a masterclass in the power of poetry to confront difficult subject matter with accuracy and painstaking openness. These are rigorous and exacting poems, that dare to go to some of the darkest places and speak with stark precision.
  These poems may be stripped down, intense and utterly frank, but they are not without deep reserves of sincerity and beauty. Sluman writes of the heady cocktail of being alive, where loss, love, sex, close shaves with mortality and sharp narratives of pain and suffering are explored with concise and humane clarity.
  "Daniel Sluman's new collection explores acute and chronic, emotional and physical pain (and, albeit less often, pleasure) with a raw, compelling urgency. At times playful, at times harrowing, the terrible always brims with life." – Carrie Etter
  "Vivid and honest poems of intense experience, in which no wound is too deep to be cauterised by language. " – Jean Sprackland

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  Notes on The Sonnets

  Luke Kennard

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  Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021
  
  Longlisted for the Rathbones folio prize
  
  A Poetry Book society Recommendation
  Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party.
  A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark red liquid from a briefcase. Someone takes out a guitar.
  Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, Notes on the Sonnets riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard's affectionate critique to subjects as various as love, marriage, God, metaphysics and a sad horse.
  'Luke Kennard has the uncanny genius of being able to stick a knife in your heart with such originality and verve that you start thinking "aren't knives fascinating... and hearts, my god!" whilst everything slowly goes black.'
  - Caroline Bird

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