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  Main Street and Other Poems

  Joyce Kilmer

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  This is a book of poems by Joyce Kilmer. It includes several of his religious poems and poems about World War I, in which the author himself lost his life in 1918. - Summary by Carolin

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  8

  Dustin Lance Black

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  An unconstitutional proposition.An unprecedented decision.An all-star cast.Starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Martin Sheen, "8" is written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar) and directed by acclaimed actor and director Rob Reiner.The play is a powerful account of the case filed by the American Federation for Equal Rights (AFER) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state of California. Framed around the trial's historic closing arguments in June 2010, 8 provides an intimate look what unfolded when the issue of same-sex marriage was on trial.Exclusive interviews included:- Dustin Lance Black and Rob Reiner, playwright and director of "8"- David Boies and Ted Olson, lawyers for Prop 8 plaintiffs in California- Backstage interview montage with actors George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, John C. Reilly, Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and James Pickens Jr.A full-cast performance featuring:George Clooney as David BoiesBrad Pitt as Chief Judge Vaughn WalkerMartin Sheen as Theodore B. OlsonKevin Bacon as Charles CooperJamie Lee Curtis as Sandy StierChristine Lahti as Kris PerryJohn C. Reilly as David BlankenhornJane Lynch as Maggie GallagherJesse Tyler Ferguson as Dr. Ilan MeyerMatthew Morrison as Paul KatamiChris Colfer as Ryan KendallYeardley Smith as Dr. Nancy CottMatt Bomer as Jeff ZarrilloGeorge Takei as Dr. William TamRory O’Malley as Dr. Gregory HerekCleve Jones as Evan WolfsonJames Pickens, Jr. as Dr. Gary SeguraJansen Panettiere as Elliott PerryBridger Zadina as Spencer PerryVanessa Garcia as ClerkCampbell Brown as Broadcast JournalistDirected by Rob Reiner. Recorded before a live audience at the Wilshire Ebell Theater,  Los Angeles on March 3, 2012.

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  Bleak Expectations (NHB Modern...

  Mark Evans

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  The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin…
  Follow half-orphan Pip's extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit, as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly Mr Gently Benevolent, defeat the hideous Hardthrasher siblings, and deflect disaster at every turn! Will evil be vanquished by virtue? Can love triumph over hate?
  Mark Evans' stage play Bleak Expectations is a hilarious, chaotic caper, featuring dastardly villains, preposterous names, pulse-quickening romances, heart-rending death scenes, and definitely, probably, hopefully a happy ending.
  Based on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series, the play opened at The Watermill Theatre, Newbury, in 2022, directed by Caroline Leslie. It transferred to the Criterion Theatre in London's West End in 2023, where it featured a medley of many well-known actors and comedians.
  It offers rich opportunities to amateur theatre companies looking for a gloriously daft Dickensian romp which will have their audiences joyfully transported and begging for more.
  'Dickens with a dash of Monty Python… nimbly combines period detail with a sense of the absurd… immaculately polished puns and in-jokes' - The Times
  'A fast-paced comedy mashup that sends up Britishness with oodles of silliness… zings with intelligence, imagination and comic anarchy' - Guardian
  'Cheek-achingly funny… a ceaseless stream of quick one-liners that delivers laugh after laugh of pure entertainment… a great night out' - Broadway World

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  Those April Fevers

  Mary O'Donnell

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  Intergalactic, these poems travel from outer space via the moon to coffee tables at a luxuriously considered pace. In doing so they crackle with precision, dance between love and horror, curiosity and wonder.
  The narrators are as diverse as their subjects, their tones ranging through wry, wistful, lusty and political. There is surrealism here, a world turned upside down by climate change, newly-charged mythologies that shake what we thought we understood about the order of things, and our relationships.

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  Creditors (NHB Classic Plays)

  August Strindberg

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  Young artist Adolf is deeply in love with his new wife Tekla – but a chance meeting with a suave stranger shakes his devotion to the core.
  Passionate, dangerously funny, and enduringly perceptive, Strindberg considered this wickedly enjoyable black comedy his masterpiece.
  August Strindberg's play Creditors was written in the summer of 1888, and first staged at the Dagmar Theatre in Copenhagen in March 1889.
  This English version by Howard Brenton was premiered in March 2019 in a co-production between Jermyn Street Theatre, London, and Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, directed by Jermyn Street's Artistic Director Tom Littler.

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  The Bell Tower - Poems

  Pamela Crowe

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  Acerbic, precise and very funny, Pamela Crowe's poems explore home life and relationships in a delightfully forthright voice. Secret frustrations and anxieties are aired and private fantasies brought into the light, as odes blur into diatribes and psychodramas become love poems.
  
  Woven throughout The Bell Tower is a love of Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and – above all – Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones. These are fierce, acutely observed poems that give weight to domestic minutiae and put words to helpless howls into the abyss.
  You, the cloud.
  
  Oh look! there you are,
  
  blobbing along as if you're best friends with rain
  
  and thunder is your dad. Fuck off.
  
  - excerpt from 'Cloudcunt'

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