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Eve Of Ides: An Audioplay Of Caesar And Brutus

Step into the gripping world of intrigue and betrayal with 'Eve Of Ides,' an immersive audio drama that delves into the untold story behind the night preceding Julius Caesar's fateful assassination. Join Caesar, Brutus, and Antony at a feast where secrets are unveiled, and destinies are sealed. March 14, 44 BC. Elected Dictator of Rome, Caesar is about to embark on a new war in the East to avenge an old friend. With just one meeting of the Senate standing between him and his foes, Caesar attends a farewell dinner. Unknown to him, several of the guests are plotting to end his life. Among them is Brutus, who is deeply conflicted about the plan, struggling with both morality and mortality. As the tension rises, Antony poses the question of the best way to meet one's end. Caesar's poignant response, 'What does it matter, so long as it's quick?' sets the stage for a journey that intertwines history with Shakespeare, delving into the unexplored relationships between the key players of the age – Caesar, Brutus, and Antony. 'Eve Of Ides' brings history to life, captivating audiences with a riveting narrative. Featuring stellar performances by Edward Gero as Caesar, Robert Kauzlaric as Brutus, and David Blixt as Mark Antony, supported by an exceptional cast including Ian Geers, John Lepard, Sam Hubbard, and Janice L Blixt. Directed by the talented Robert Kauzlaric, this audio drama promises an unforgettable journey into the heart of power, politics, and the human condition. Don't miss the chance to experience history in its most vivid and dramatic form!

David Blixt (Author), David Blixt, Edward Gero, Ian Geers, Janice L Blixt, John Lepard, Robert Kauzlaric, Sam Hubbard (Narrator)

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[German] - Republik der Verrückten - Iranian Voices

REPUBLIK DER VERRÜCKTEN ist ein Hörspiel von Oliver Kontny mit Musik von Marc Sinan aus der internationalen Reihe IRANIAN VOICES. Acht Sprecherinnen und Sprecher erzählen Geschichten zur Lage im Iran nach der Niederschlagung des Aufstandes. Dokumentarisches Material wird in das berühmte persische Liebesepos von Laila und Madjnun gewoben. Eine Sechzehnjährige, die ihren Vergewaltiger erschlägt. Ein schwer depressiver Student, der im Park einen Mann küsst. Ein Richter, der immer wieder Frauen zum Tode verurteilt. Eine Mutter, die sich für ihren schwulen Sohn einsetzt. Menschen, die nicht mehr mitmachen. Vor der Folie der Erzählung vom wahnsinnigen Dichter Madjnun und seiner stummen Geliebten Laila erkämpfen sich die Sprecherinnen eine eigene Haltung gegenüber den Ereignissen im heutigen Iran. Sie bieten keinen vermeintlichen Insiderblick an, sondern stellen ihre Positionen von hier und heute zur Debatte.

Oliver Kontny (Author), Adolfo Assor, Alina Manoukian, Bijan Zamani, Elmira Bahrami, Jasmin Tabatabai, Maryam Zaree, Nora Abdel-Maksoud, Salome Dastmalchi (Narrator)

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Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts (Unabridged)

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Escape to a faded grandeur, a sprawling estate where lives intersect with unspoken longing. Uncle Vanya, a tale by Anton Chekhov, brings you into a world of quiet desperation. Professor Serebryakov's arrival with his beautiful young wife disrupts the peaceful routine, igniting long-suppressed desires. Vanya, the loyal caretaker, and Astrov, the idealistic doctor, find themselves captivated by Yelena's beauty. As the professor's plans threaten their way of life, simmering tensions boil over. Will love, jealousy, and resentment shatter the fragile peace? Immerse yourself in a masterpiece of unspoken emotions and the bittersweet sting of unfulfilled dreams. Uncle Vanya, a timeless story of love, loss, and the yearning for a life less ordinary.

Anton P. Chekhov (Author), Digital Voice Mike G (Narrator)

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Boomerang

Jack Freestone (Author), Digital Voice Cole G (Narrator)

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Īnangahua Gold

This historical novel, told in two stories 20 twenty years apart, explores the relationships that unfold on the West Coast of Te Wai Pounamu New Zealand, in the mid-19th century, as isolated, difficult to access parts of the country are entered by European explorers guided by local Maori. Set in the 19th Century, it plaits together as a flax-root narrative prose and poetic imagery to tell a timeless love story. It links people with the natural environment, and blends languages, cultures, shared endeavour and compassion in a vivid multi-cultural epiphany of life in Aotearoa-New Zealand. - John Weir Kathleen Gallagher is a poet, playwright, filmmaker and novelist. She received the New Zealand Playwrights Award in 1993, and the Sonja Davies Peace Award in 2004 for the film Tau Te Mauri Breath Of Peace. She has authored three collections of poetry, 16 plays, six feature films, and two novels.

Kathleen Gallagher (Author), Kathleen Gallagher, Stephanie Frewen (Narrator)

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The Fever Syndrome

Professor Richard Myers, now in his 70s and suffering from advanced Parkinson's disease, is about to receive a lifetime achievement award for his work in the development of in-vitro fertilization. That calls for a family reunion, and given this high-functioning, dysfunctional family, there's bound to be trouble ahead. As they gather, old resentments erupt as they fight over Richard's legacy while facing another family member's serious illness. Incudes a conversation with playwright Alexis Zegerman. This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in December 2023. Directed by Sarah Drew Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording, starring: Hugo Armstrong as Professor Richard Myers Seamus Dever as Thomas Myers Sarah Drew as the voice of Karen Patrick Heusinger as Anthony Myers Kelly McCreary as Dot Myers-Cooper Monica McSwain as Lily Cooper and Young Dot Matthew Floyd Miller as Nate Cooper Desean K. Terry as Phillip Tennyson Joanne Whalley as Megan Myers. Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson Prepared for audio by Mark Holden. Recorded, designed, and mixed by Charles Carroll, and edited by Neil Wogensen for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Piano music and musical characters adapted and performed by Rusty Tinder, recorded by Charles Carroll, and Directed by Mark Holden. Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin Foley Artist: Stacey Martinez

Alexis Zegerman (Author), Desean Terry, Hugo Armstrong, Joanne Whalley, Kelly Mccreary, Matthew Floyd Miller, Monica Mcswain, Patrick Heusinger, Seamus Dever (Narrator)

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Inheritance: A pick-the-path experience

Three people - Indigenous, immigrant, and settler - journey over dangerous terrain in a race against time, and each other, to gain control of a vast parcel of land. YOU decide how events unfold, ultimately determining how the land is stewarded, and by whom. An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man staying there instead. They ask him to leave . . . and with a click on your device, you choose what happens next. When it's revealed that the colonial rights to this entire property are actually up for grabs, you must continue to decide how the story unfolds. Inheritance is an interactive audio-drama specially adapted from the award-winning and published stage play, replete with all of the same humour and suspense as the live production. With over fifty possible variations, it's unlike any journey you've been on before. The choices you make along the way give you the power to pick your path and, ultimately, decide the fate of these three people and the piece of land they're vying for.

Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, Medina Hahn (Author), Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, Medina Hahn, Michelle Bardach (Narrator)

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Voices

WE ARE THE POEMS WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR Voices is an interdisciplinary audio play and campaign grounded in Black women’s stories to unify the vision of ending violence against women across the African Continent and African Diaspora. Its goal is to use art to embody and inspire solidarity-making in the collective imagination. Over two years of gathering stories, engaging in collective study, and collaborating with Black women and non-binary actors and musicians across the African continent and diaspora led to creation of this audioplay. Told through monologue, song, and poetry, Voices provides a unique space for people to gather, engage the meaning of return and diaspora, and envision a world where African women are collaborating and loving each other across cultures, borders, and customs.

Aja Monet (Author), A Full Cast (Narrator)

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The Comedy of Errors

Mistaken identity (which the Elizabethans called “Error”) is nearly always amusing, whether on the stage or in actual life. The Comedy of Errors is a play in which this situation is developed to the extreme of improbability – but we lose sight of this improbability in the roaring fun which results. Nowadays we should call a play of this type a farce, since most of the fun comes from situations which are improbable and the play depends on these for success, rather than on characterization or dialogue. Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors draws on a much older play, Menaechmi, written by the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (254–184 B.C.). A merchant of Syracuse has twin sons and buys twin servants for them. His wife, with one twin and one servant, is soon separated from him by a shipwreck, and comes to live in Ephesus. When grown, the other son and his slave start out to find their brothers, and the father, some years later, starts out in turn to find them. Once in Ephesus, an amusing series of errors begins. The wife takes the wrong twin for her husband, the master beats the wrong slave, the wrong son disowns his father, the twin at Ephesus is arrested instead of his brother, and the twin slave Dromio of Syracuse is claimed as a husband by a black kitchen girl of Ephesus. The situation gets more and more mixed, until at last the real identity of the strangers from Syracuse is established, and all ends happily. Featuring the voices of Susan Iannucci, Gary MacFadden, David Shears, Dara Brown, Blaise Doran, Aisling Gray, Claudia Anglade, Kendra Murray and P.J. Morgan

William Shakespeare (Author), A Full Cast, Aisling Gray, Blaise Doran, Claudia Anglade, Dara Brown, David Shears, Gary Macfadden, Kendra Murray, Pj Morgan, Susan Iannucci (Narrator)

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THE RANSOM: A Profoundly Satisfying Sequel to THE PARDON

A trip to paradise gone awry. The cartel took his son, but contending with a former Soviet special forces officer could be more than they bargained for. ' Drug cartels and hostage-taking are among the provocative plot elements in a tumultuous odyssey that takes you from snowy Russia to the highland jungle of old Mexico and finally to Jamaica's beautiful but troubled shores. Rodney Powell brings authority and vivid authenticity on par with the best of classic Tom Clancy thrillers !' Cal THOMAS ─ Syndicated Columnist THE RANSOM is a continuation of THE PARDON, the breakout debut novel by Rodney Powell. Follow the stories of Vladi Gavrilov and Marco Rivera, moving from the Cold War era to the blood-soaked cartel wars of Latin America. Most of the time, we can see good and evil for what they are. But life’s journey sometimes takes us through gray areas where our options aren’t so clearly defined. How do you choose when the border between right and wrong is blurred and time is running out? Find out in THE RANSOM …. 'Faith, emotion, anxiety, thrill, and a double dose of adventure ... THE RANSOM brings it all. Powell painted such a vivid picture that I could feel, smell, see, hear, and even taste the situations and settings' Col Clinton “Sandy” McNABB ─ USAF, Ret

Rodney Powell (Author), Roy Worley (Narrator)

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Glory Bishop

Glory Bishop lives her life in pieces. At work and with her friends, she reads novels, speaks her mind, and enjoys slow dances and stolen kisses with her boyfriend, JT. But at home, Glory follows strict rules and second-guesses every step. Though she dreams of going to college and living like a normal teenage girl, her abusive mother has other ideas. When JT leaves to join the navy, Glory is left alone and heartsick. The preacher's son, Malcolm Porter, begins to shower her with lavish gifts, and her mother pushes Glory to accept his advances. Glory is torn between waiting for true love with JT or giving in to the overzealous Malcolm. When a stranger attacks Glory on the street, Malcolm steps in to rescue her, and her interest in him deepens. But the closer she gets to him, the more controlling he becomes. Glory must eventually decide whether to rely on others or to be her own savior.

Deborah L. King (Author), Dara Brown (Narrator)

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Snakebit

Jennifer and Jonathan, a showbiz couple, leave their ailing daughter in New York City to come to Hollywood, so Jonathan can audition for a film. And when Jennifer stays with her old friend Michael, a dancer turned social worker, past sins shed new light on the present in the age of AIDS. This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works' "Chicago Theaters on the Air" series, produced in conjunction with Remains Theatre. Recorded before a live audience at Chicago's Guest Quarters Suite Hotel in February 1993. Theatrical Direction by Campbell Scott Directed for Radio by Mary McAuliffe Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: Talia Balsam as Jennifer John Benjamin Hickey as Michael Harry Hutchinson as the Man D.W. Moffett as Jonathan Radio Producer: Robert Newhouse Recording Engineer: Larry Rock Production Stager Manager: Jan Watson Live Sound Effects: Kim Soren Watson

David Marshall Grant (Author), D.W. Moffett, Harry Hutchinson, John Benjamin Hickey, Talia Balsam (Narrator)

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