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If you didn’t manage to make it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019, Audible has you covered! We selected a cross section of some of the most exciting new plays of the year, invited the actors and directors into the studio and recorded stirringly intimate audio performances of the plays just for you.... Portions of this audio drama contain explicit content, with mature language and themes that some listeners may find disturbing. Listener discretion is advised.

Il 1963 è stato l’anno di Fellini e di Visconti. Un anno decisivo per il cinema italiano, che ha visto la nascita di Otto e mezzo e Il Gattopardo. Ma prima di diventare i capolavori che ben sappiamo erano due incredibili scommesse, nonché il campo di battaglia tra due artisti rivali e profondamente diversi: mentre Claudia Cardinale cambiava il colore dei capelli secondo il capriccio di chi la dirigeva, l’intero contesto culturale italiano si stava preparando a sposare l’una o l’altra visione del cinema e del mondo.

In Shakespeare’s most intimate tragedy, director Bill Rauch explores racism, religious bias, xenophobia, and the more disturbing aspects of relationships in the context of our society’s ongoing struggle with polarizing differences. Consumed by their bigotry, those who praised the Moorish general Othello’s military successes now reject his marriage to Desdemona. The newlyweds are determined to overcome all obstacles, but Othello’s assignment in an exotic new location draws them into the web of his lieutenant Iago, whose resentment and demons know no bounds.

One year after solving the murder of Evelyn Porter, Detective Jack Rourke finds himself drawn into another sinister holiday mystery when sixteen-year-old Emma Bradley vanishes during Cedar Hollow's Winter Festival. Emma's disappearance leads to the discovery of a decades-old conspiracy involving the town's most prominent families and a shadowy organization called the Heritage Foundation. As Rourke races to save Emma, he uncovers the truth about Cedar Hollow's perfect facade – and the terrible price paid to maintain it. With help from Sarah Porter and a network of secret allies, Rourke must ...

The Marlborough Book Festival is an annual readers and writers festival held in July in Marlborough, New Zealand. Listen to our podcasts to hear discussions with our featured writers, as they explain the challenges and the highlights of creating their various works and their lives as writers. For more information, head to: https://www.marlboroughbookfest.co.nz/

Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2014 production of The Tempest, Shakespeare's magical romantic comedy, directed by Tony Taccone. This stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the OSF cast, is a must-listen.

World premiere audio dramas commissioned specifically for a completely aural experience created by and featuring today’s most anticipated and celebrated actors, directors and writers, presented by Dorset Theatre Festival.  STAGE FREE AUDIO PLAYS create a bridge between our history of artistic excellence in producing bold new work, and our commitment to community engagement by making new plays accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime, and for FREE! Enjoy world-class art, homegrown in the Brave Little State of Vermont. The Festival has commissioned award-winning writers Chisa Hutchinson and ...

Love, betrayal, passion, bloodshed, and death. What happens when two young people from warring families fall in love? The Montagues and the Capulets have been enemies for generations, but when their children Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love, tragedy ensues. This 6-episode series brings Shakespeare’s story to life as a radio drama performed by members of the Great River Shakespeare Festival. This audio experience is designed especially for students and the website includes study materials for use in classrooms. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant ...

Julius Caesar is a marked man. Adoring commoners celebrate his battlefield victories, but those higher up the Roman political ladder worry that his ambition has grown too large. On a stormy night full of alarming sights and ominous portents, Cassius persuades Caesar's friend Brutus to help him with a momentous task: assassinate Caesar for the good of the Republic. But death doesn't stop Caesar, whose spirit haunts the destinies of his friends and enemies, threatening the republican ideal for which they murdered him.

Sound On Site is a series of soundscapes created by students at Debenham High School in Stowmarket, directed by creative practitioner Amy Wyllie in partnership with the Primadonna festival.These sound stories were made as part of the 'Jubilant!' Mini Youth Arts & Culture Festival 2023, taking place in Stowmarket from Wednesday 7 – Wednesday 14 June 2023. Jubilant! celebrates the creativity of local school children and young people. A specially commissioned team of talented artists worked with students from 10 local schools to build their own exciting creative project.The stories will also ...

To Each Their Own is a modern-writ comedy in the style of the Theatre of Elizabeth the First, written with a scholar's research and a modern Shakespearean actor's wit. It includes many of the elements we are used to seeing in Shakespeare (sassy servants, pompous Noblemen, love-at-first-sight, shipwrecks, magic, fights, sacrifice, and slapstick) and language that conveys much more than single emotions.

Richard II is dangerously out of touch with his kingdom. He wastes money, raises taxes to support his lavish lifestyle, plays favorites, and cares more about his vanity than the common good. When Henry Bolingbroke - father of the future Henry V - challenges Richard for the throne, it's a fight the king can't win. But in losing his crown he gains far greater things: his humanity and his soul.

Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s brilliant, modern production of Shakespeare’s disturbing and psychologically rich masterpiece Hamlet. Whether you’re a Hamlet scholar or being exposed to this work for the first time, this stunning work of audio theater, fully dramatized with performances by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival cast, is a must-listen.