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  Much Ado About Nothing

  William Shakespeare

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  Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare's best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics.The play includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid.

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  Each Day Dies With Sleep

  Jose Rivera

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  Written by José Rivera, recent Academy Award Nominee for The Motorcycles Diaries, Each Day Dies with Sleep is the story of a young woman’s struggle to find an identity apart from the two men in her life – her father and her husband. Written in Rivera’s typical satiric and super realistic style, this fantastical tragic-comedy leaps from coast to coast, and from one outrageous moment to the next.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Laura Ceron, Noe Cuellar and Frankie Davila.

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  Grotty & Brute: Two Plays (NHB...

  Izzy Tennyson

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  Two unflinching plays from exciting new writer and performer, Izzy Tennyson.
  Grotty is a dark and savage exploration of the London lesbian scene. A couple of little sad old basements that drip with sweat and piss, with second-hand noise pulsating from some gay-boy night upstairs. The women sit there in their uniformed black… and they are looking at you. They are not nice girls. But Grotty is not a nice story.
  The piece was premiered by Damsel Productions at The Bunker, London, in May 2018.
  Solo show Brute tells the true story of a rather twisted schoolgirl. Poppy's just started at an all-girls state school in a provincial English town, where there are rules with no logic, sadistic jokes that aren't actually funny, and the most sinister games played out of boredom.
  Brute won the 2015 IdeasTap Underbelly Award, had a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and transferred to Soho Theatre with Damsel Productions in 2016.

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  Swanwhite - A Fairy Play in...

  August Strindberg

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  Step into the enchanting world of August Strindberg's "Swanwhite," a captivating fairy tale filled with magic, romance, and happy endings (who knew Strindberg was capable of that!). Swanwhite (a spirited young princess with a heart as pure as gold), at the behest of her father, begrudgingly obliges to marry a visiting King while he is away on campaign. But, when the young, handsome prince comes to her as a messenger for the King (a young prince who was spoken of in prophecy), Swanwhite finds herself torn between duty and love. How will she choose?  
  Come see all of the enduring hallmarks of the fairy tale genre in this gloriously fashioned fairy play for the stage; safe for all ages, and enjoyable for those who are still kids at heart.

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  Spilled Milk

  Veronica Christopher

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  Things aren’t always what they seem… 
  In the idyllic mountain town of Little Bethlehem, the hills and valleys hold many secrets. 20-year old Amber St. Germaine knows all about secrets…With a sister locked up for murdering their father, and a selfish, abusive mother, Amber has no choice but to step up and care for younger sister, Rorie. On the brink of insanity, her only solace is her twisted obsession with big brother, Bret, and visits with Rose in prison. 
  Spilled Milk is the story of a girl trying to break free from a crippling family legacy tainted with forbidden love, incest, abuse, and a trail of mysterious deaths. When pieces of the forgotten past resurface, can Amber keep it together for the sake of her little sister- or will she finally succumb to the darkness?

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  Fox Populi

  Kate Fox

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  Click the 'Extracts' tab above to read our exclusive interview with Kate Fox, plus sample poems from the book.Fox Populi takes poetry on a hilarious, Creature Comforts-style journey through the crackly airwaves of contemporary culture. Radio-mic in hand, Kate Fox listens in on comedians and psychiatrists, Great North runners and nutters, and the staff of a call centre in modern-day Tynemouth. Herself a familiar voice on BBC TV and radio, this first full-length collection confirms Kate Fox's position as one of the UK's most popular poet-comedians.
  
  "Funny, quirky and a wonderful writer."
  
  Sarah Millican, stand-up comedian
  "Self deprecating and wry throughout, this is poetry that is both accessible, true and wise."
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  "Sylvia Plath channelling Victoria Wood"
  
  Matt Harvey
  Kate Fox is a poet, performer and comedian. Born in Bradford in 1975, she is the Poet in Residence on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live. She has been the Poet in Residence for the BBC2 coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show, and for the Great North Run in 2011 and 2012. Her poems have been broadcast on the BBC2 Daily Politics show, BBC Online, Amnesty International and Radio 3's The Verb with Ian McMillan. Her one-woman Edinburgh Festival show, Kate Fox News, toured the UK in 2010-11 (4 stars, Sunday Telegraph). She has also appeared at several other major festivals including Latitude, Aldeburgh and Cheltenham. Her poems recently appeared in The Iron Book of Humorous Verse (Iron Press, 2010). She lives in Thirsk, and writes a weekly column for The Journal newspaper in Newcastle.
  This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.

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