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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 2:58am CEST by dovesnake
Lady Windermere's Fan By Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public 'morality'
compared with genuine, private kindness.
When it opened in 1892, Lady Windermere's Fan was an instant success and now, a century later, it continues to be revived frequently.
The reasons for its popularity are not difficult to identify: the play's witty dialogue contains many of Wilde's most quoted aphorisms, its stylish setting provides opportunities for elegant presentation, and its cast of memorable characters play out a story which is genuinely moving.
CAST
Lord Windermere........................................ .................Samuel West
Lord Darlington........................................ ...................Michael Sheen
Lord Augustus Lorton............................................ ...... Derek Waring
Mr Dumby............................................. .....................Peter Yapp
Mr Cecil Graham............................................ ..............Nicholas Boulton
Mr Hopper............................................ Benjamin Soames
Parker............................................ ...........................Rod Beacham
Lady Windermere........................................ .................Emma Fielding
The Duchess of Berwick........................................... ....Sarah Badel
Lady Plymdale/Lady Agatha Carlisle.................................Elaine Claxton
Lady Jedburgh/Rosalie........................................... .......Delia Parton
Mrs Erlynne........................................... .....................Juliet Stevenson
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 2:47am CEST by dovesnake
Two Plays For Voices By Neil Gaiman
Snow Glass Apples
Bebe Neuwirth as the Queen; Martin Carey as the Huntsman; Mark Evans as the Prince; Merwin Goldsmith as the Lord of the Fair; J.R. Horne as the Archbishop & Friar; Alissa Hunnicutt as the Maidservant; Randy Maggiore as a Soldier; Kate Simses as the Princess; Nick Wyman as the King;
Murder Mysteries
Brian Dennehy as Raguel; Anne Bobby as Tink's Friend; Christopher Burns as Saraquael; Thom Christopher as Lucifer; Ed Dennehy as Zephkiel; Michael Emerson as Narrator; Traci Godfrey as Tinkerbell Richmond; Evan Pappas as Phanuel;
Mono 44.1 kHz VBR 77.8MB
This pair of audio plays, adapted by the author from his story collection Smoke & Mirrors, serves as a wonderful introduction to Gaiman's weird fictional world.
"Snow Glass Apples," a diabolical take on "Snow White," introduces vampirism and necrophilia into the tale and features a wicked stepmother who's more victim than evildoer. Narrator Bebe Neuwirth, of Cheers fame, has superb timing.
Equally well produced is "Murder Mysteries", a noirish tale in which Brian Dennehy takes the role of an avenging angel investigating a murder. The play is cleverly scored with sinister music. (Book Magazine)
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 2:36am CEST by dovesnake
Incident At Vichy By Arthur Miller
Performed by L. A. Theatre Works (2002)
Duration...1:11:24
Tracks...4
Audio...Stereo 44.1kHz 126-142kbps
Arthur Miller's one act play about a group of men awaiting 'inspection' by German officers inside the Vichy regime is a study of the choices an individual can make against historical forces playing themselves out around him.
Written in 1964, Miller's script recalls a historical period still within the playwright's recent memory, but which simultaneously provides insight into the witch-hunt under McCarthyism in America. In both worlds, the individual is faced with the decision about how to act; either passively to conform in the hope of survival, or to struggle against authority with risk of danger.
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 2:30am CEST by dovesnake
Private Lives By Noël Coward
Performed by L. A. Theatre Works (2003)
Duration...1:12:12
Tracks...5
Audio...Stereo 44.1kHz 126-142kbps
Private Lives, a comedy of manners that focuses on a divorced couple who discover that they are honeymooning with their new spouses in the same hotel, is considered a prime example of the sophisticated comedies of Noël Coward, one of the most-prominent dramatists of his era.
An overwhelming critical and commercial success when it was first produced in 1930, Private Lives remains a standard of repertory and non-professional theatre companies everywhere and has entertained audiences for well over half a century.
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 2:25am CEST by dovesnake
After The Fall By Arthur Miller
Performed by L. A. Theatre Works in 1999
Duration...2:05:24
Tracks...31
Audio...Mono 32kHz 54~56kbps
After The Fall presents the riveting struggle of a man attempting to make peace with history - his own and the world's - in order to go forward with his life.
Haunted by his relationship with a needy sex symbol, Quentin's remarks to an unseen listener spark a relentless exploration of the past motives and compromises that still shape his present.
Amy Aquino as Felice, Elsie
Amy Brenneman as Maggie
Gregory Itzin as Lou, others
Anthony LaPaglia as Quentin
Claudette Nevins as Mother
Natalija Nogulich as Holga
Amyetz as Louise
Al Ruscio as Father
Raphael Sbarge as Lou
Kenny Williams as Dan
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 2:14am CEST by dovesnake
The Price By Arthur Miller
Performed by L. A. Theatre Works in 1995
Duration...1:49:08
Tracks...29
Audio...Mono 32kHz 54~56kbps
Arthur Miller's deeply moving drama reunites two long estranged brothers. Nostalgia and recrimination erupt as they sell off an attic full of furniture, their last link to a family and a world that no longer exist.
This 1968 classic is a wrenching saga of plaintive gestures and missed opportunities.
Richard Dreyfuss as Victor Franz
Amy Irving as Esther Franz
Harris Yulin as Walter Franz
Timothy West as Gregory Solomon
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 2:08am CEST by dovesnake
Broken Glass By Arthur Miller
Performed by L. A. Theatre Works in 1997
Duration...1:43:26
Tracks...29
Audio...Mono 32kHz 55~57kbps
Set in Brooklyn in 1938, this gripping psychological mystery begins when 45-tear-old Sylvia Gellburg suddenly loses her ability to walk. Phillip Gellburg is desperate to find out what is crippling his attractive, level-headed wife. The doctor can find nothing wrong.
The prosperous Gellburgs have been contentedly married for decades. The only clue lies in Sylvia's growing obsession with news accounts from Germany. Even though she's safe in Brooklyn, Sylvia is terrified by Nazi violence - or is it something closer to home?
Jane Brucker as Harriet
David Dukes as Dr. Harry Hyman
Lawrence Pressman as Phillip Gellburg
Linda Purl as Margaret Hyman
John Vickery as Stanton Case
JoBeth Williams as Sylvia Gellburg
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 1:58am CEST by dovesnake
Psychology of Negotiating By Neil Rackham
Product Description
45 Minute Audio CD Explains the traits of experienced negotiators... how to recognize negotiating styles, common traps, plus techniques for improving your skills.
About the Author
Neil Rackham is an author, researcher and management consultant experienced and grounded with decades of Negotiating Experience based on his research and for his clients.
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 1:51am CEST by dovesnake
Beckett In 90 Minutes By Paul Strathern (Audiobook)
Read by Robert Whitfield
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture and both formally and philosophically became increasingly minimalist.
As a student, assistant, and friend of James Joyce, Beckett is considered by many one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to many later writers, he is sometimes considered one of the first postmodernists. He is also considered one of the key writers in what Martin Esslin called "Theatre of the Absurd."
Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 1:44am CEST by dovesnake
The Bombmaker By Stephen Leather
Synopsis
Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA's deadliest killers--until a misplaced bomb ripped into a group of passing children. Now, years later, she has a whole new life and a family, and her days of violence seem a distant memory. But then her daughter is kidnapped by persons unknown, and she's blackmailed into building a massive explosive device for them--target unknown... The Bombmaker is Stephen Leather at his best, taking the reader from Dublin, to London, to the depths of the Far East. Stephen Leather is a former journalist for THE TIMES and Hong Kong's SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. His many books include Eyewitness, The Stretch, The Vets, and Tango One.
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 1:35am CEST by dovesnake
A Murder of Promise By Robert Andrews
Edition: Unabridged
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Number of parts: 9
Duration: 9 hours, 29 minutes
ISBN: 9781597105125
Release date: Sep 14, 2004
mp3 32kbps 44.1 KHz mono
When legendary Washington Post reporter Mary Keegan is found murdered, homicide detectives Frank Kearney and Jose Phelps pull up the file on another open case. There as here, the victim was a female who had been hacked to death in a public park. And there is one other link: each was missing a little finger, a grisly souvenir - perhaps the calling card of a serial killer. When, a week later, a third woman is found in similar circumstances, they're sure of it.
Kearney and Phelps are certain the killer will strike again and know they're working against time. Using the best evidence modern forensics and computer science can supply and the good guesswork twenty-five years of homicide investigations have sharpened, they begin to see some patterns, but not enough to connect up the dots. Then the finger of one of the victims is found sealed inside a plastic baggie in a raided crack house. Cutting corners, pulling in favors, they track the evidence back to what they believe will be the killer, only to find he is one step ahead of them. In a climactic nightmare chase, Kearney races to save the person dearest to him as he faces off against a cunning homicidal maniac.
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 1:23am CEST by dovesnake
Burned By Carol Higgins Clark (Audiobook)
Read by the Author
Unabridged
Rate: 128 kbps
Length: 4 hours, 19 minutes
“New York Times bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark's trademark light touch, humor, and quirky characters make for another wonderfully unpredictable mystery. Say "Aloha" to an unforgettable Hawaiian adventure!
L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly gets a call from her best gal pal, urging her to come to Hawaii for one last girls' weekend before Regan ties the knot with Jack "no relation" Reilly, and so she happily packs her bags.
At the Waikiki Waters Playground and Resort, the body of Dorinda Dawes, the hotel's gossipy PR woman, washes ashore wearing a valuable lei that once belonged to a Hawaiian princess and was stolen from a museum in Honolulu thirty years ago.
The resort manager doesn't believe that Dorinda drowned accidentally and persuades Regan to take on the case. The more she starts digging, the more danger she is in. Can Regan find out what really happened before it's too late for her and the other vacationers at the Waikiki Waters? ”
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Posted: May 17th, 2009, 1:11am CEST by dovesnake
All My Sons By Arthur Miller (1947)
Product Description
Told against the setting of a suburban backyard in the 1940s, Miller's play is a classic American drama about the idealization of a father, the loss of a son, and the secrets that destroy a family.
James Farentino as Joe Keller
Arye Gross as Chris Keller
Julie Harris as Kate Keller
Mitchel Hébert as Dr. Bayliss
Naomi Jacobsen as Ann
Barbara Klein as Lydia
Paul Morella as George
Michaeleen O'Neill as Sue
Nathan Taylor as Bert
Jerry Whiddon as Frank
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