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  The Kitchen Sink

  Tom Wells

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  An irresistibly funny and tender play about big dreams and small changes.
  Amid the dreaming, the dramas and the dirty dishes, something has to give. But will it be Kath or the kitchen sink?
  Things aren't going to plan for one family in Withernsea, Yorkshire. Pieces are falling off Martin's milk float as quickly as he's losing customers and something's up with Kath's kitchen sink. Billy is pinning his hopes of a place at art college on a revealing portrait of Dolly Parton, whilst Sophie's dreams of becoming a ju-jitsu teacher might be disappearing down the plughole.
  This volume also includes the monologue Spacewang.
  'This is one of the best new plays I have seen anywhere this year, and I cannot recommend it too highly.' Charles Spencer, Telegraph
  'Wells wrings more riches out of seemingly throwaway lines than a lot of writers manage in an entire play' Evening Standard

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  The Poetry of Lewis Carroll -...

  Lewis Carroll

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  Lewis Carroll was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson on the 27th January 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire, the eldest boy and the third child.  Another eight followed.   
   
  When Dodgson was 11, his cleric father moved his family to Croft-on-Tees in the North Riding of Yorkshire.  Although his father was active and highly conservative his son was ambivalent with those values and with the Church as a whole. 
   
  In his early years Dodgson was educated at home and by age 7 he was reading the likes of ‘The Pilgrim's Progress’.  He also spoke with a stammer which he called his ‘hesitation’. 
   
  At 12 he was dispatched to Richmond Grammar School in North Yorkshire and then on to Rugby.  He sailed through the curriculum.  He was accepted at Christ Church, Oxford but two days after arriving he was summoned home: his mother had died of ‘inflammation of the brain’ at only 47. 
   
  Dodgson was exceptionally gifted and, when not distracted, achievement came easily to him.  He remained at Christ Church studying and teaching in various capacities until his death. 
   
  In March 1856, he published the romantic poem ‘Solitude’ as by ‘Lewis Carroll’.  
   
  That same year he took up the new art of photography.  He soon excelled and became a well-known gentleman-photographer, and even toyed with the idea of making a living out of it.  When he ceased photography in 1880, he had his own studio and had created around 3,000 images. 
   
  He enjoyed moderate success with his early poems and short stories but had an array of other interests in the pre-Raphaelite circle, Psychical Research and even ordained in the Church of England in 1861.  
   
  In July 1862 he told a young Alice Liddell the story that would become his first and greatest success.  Alice begged him to write it down, and eventually he did and later presented her with a handwritten and illustrated ‘Alice's Adventures Under Ground’.  The publisher Macmillan agreed to publish it as ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll.  
   
  It was a huge and sensational life-changing success.  Royalties quickly accumulated as did fan mail.  
   
  In 1871, the darker themed sequel ‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’ was published.  A half decade later came ‘The Hunting of the Snark’, a fantastical nonsense poem, as nine tradesmen and a beaver set off to find the snark.  It was another enormous success. 
   
  He also loved to invent such delights as a writing tablet ‘the nyctograph’ that allowed note-taking in the dark as well as many word games, such as the precursor to ‘Scrabble’, and alternative systems of parliamentary voting.  Within the discipline of mathematics, he worked in geometry, linear and matrix algebra, mathematical logic, recreational mathematics and wrote nearly a dozen books on the subject.   
   
  Lewis Carroll died of pneumonia following influenza on 14th January 1898 in Guildford, Surrey.  He was 65.  
   
  1 - The Poetry of Lewis Carroll - An Introduction 
  2 - The Walrus & the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll 
  3 - A Lobster Quadrille by Lewis Carroll 
  4 - Turtle Soup by Lewis Carroll 
  5 - How Doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carroll 
  6 - Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll 
  7 - A Valentine by Lewis Carroll 
  8 - The Mad Gardener's Song by Lewis Carroll 
  9 - The Knight's Song by Lewis Carroll 
  10 - The Deserted Parks by Lewis Carroll 
  11 - Humpty Dumpty's Recitation by Lewis Carroll 
  12 - A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Life Is But a Dream) by Lewis Carroll 
  13 - You Are Old Father William (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll 
  14 - Lays of Sorrow by Lewis Carroll 
  15 - A Sea Dirge by Lewis Carroll 
  16 - Melancholetta by Lewis Carroll 
  17 - Phantasmagoria.

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  Tenant of Wildfell Hall The...

  Anne Brontë

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  A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham discovers her dark secrets. In her diary Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and the world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. This passionate novel of betrayal is set within a moral framework tempered by Anne's optimistic belief in universal salvation. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is mainly considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. In escaping from her husband, she violates not only social conventions, but also English law. (Summary by Wikipedia)Cast:Gilbert Markham: DublinGothicMrs. Markham: AniseRose Markham: Tiffany Halla ColonnaFergus Markham: Max KörlingeHelen Graham: Amanda FridayMaster Arthur Huntingdon: GraceFrederick Lawrence: Robert HoffmanReverend Millward: Martin GeesonEliza Millward/Narrator: Elizabeth KlettMary Millward: Charlotte DuckettJane Wilson: April GonzalesMrs. Maxwell: AvailleMr. Boarham/Elderly Traveler: Ernst PattynamaMr. Arthur Huntingdon: Chris MarcellusAnnabella Wilmot: Arielle LipshawMr. Maxwell/Servant: Ken GarrettMillicent Hargrave: KristingjLord Lowborough/Benson/Coachman: Algy PugMr. Grimsby/John/Traveler: Chuck WilliamsonRalph Hattersley: Jason MillsRachel: Bev J. StevensWalter Hargrave: Noel BadrianEsther Hargrave: Beth ThomasMrs. Hargrave/Old Woman: Rhonda FedermanAudio edited by: Amanda Friday

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  Poems of a Bering Sea Captain...

  Lee Woodard II

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  Deep-cutting spiritual poems addressing the deepest human feelings.

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  Grotty (NHB Modern Plays)

  Izzy Tennyson

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  An unflinching play 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.

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  Dead White Men

  Shane Rhodes

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  A vital collection that interrogates the stories of the dead white men that litter our histories and landscapes.
   
  Juxtaposing the seemingly benign names of Europeans that permeate our geographies with the details of their so-called discoveries and conquests, Dead White Men turns ideas of exploration, discovery, finding and keeping back upon themselves. Engaging with exploration and scientific texts from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries – texts wrapped up in the history and ongoing present of colonization – this collection builds a fascinating poetry of memory out of histories that are largely forgotten.
   
  ‘A provocative and galvanizing read … Riveting and dazzling invention is visible on almost every page: fonts shift size, language cascades and cleaves, and images disrupt order. Dead White Men should be widely read and taught.’
   
  – Eduardo C. Corral, author of Slow Lightning
   
  ‘Dead White Men is not only a searing indictment of colonialism but also a painful reminder of the violence that underpins the logic of exploration. Each poem strikes at the heart of the issue: there are often unarticulated, unacknowledged Indigenous presences here that have been flattened over by the lies and mirages of empty landscapes. Dead White Men is a stinging and difficult journey, and one that continues to remind us that stolen land has always been the most pressing concern for Indigenous peoples and settlers. This is an absolutely essential book.’
   
  – Jordan Abel, author of Injun

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