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Nansen - art by Boris Artzybasheff (1940)

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The 2024 Shortlist

The BBC’s 13th Annual Celebration of Audio Drama

2023 marked the centenary year for audio/radio drama at the BBC. For 100 years of this unique genre, audio drama and comedy have provided enjoyment, diversion, illumination, insight and escape for listeners, evolving in approach and style as audio practitioners have responded to new ideas and technology with ingenuity, imagination and inspiration. These awards celebrate the creativity of actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, sound designers and all who work in this vibrant art-form.

The winners will be announced on Sunday 24 March 2024 in a ceremony in the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House London. The winners of the Imison and Tinniswood Awards (judged and administered by the Society of Authors and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain) will also be announced at this ceremony.

Best Original Single Drama

Benny and Hitch by Andrew McCaldon, producers Neil Varley and Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London

Churchill versus Reith by Mike Harris, producer Gary Brown, BBC Audio Drama North

Dear Harry Kane by James Fritz, producer Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London

Eat and Run by Paolo Chianta, producer Lorna Newman, BBC Audio Drama North

Rare Earth by Richard Monks, producer Nicolas Jackson, Afonica

Voices From the End of the World by Lucy Catherine, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Audio Drama London

Best Adaptation

The Age of Anxiety by W.H.Auden, adapted by Robin Brooks, producer Fiona McAlpine, Allegra Productions

Beowulf Retold based on the version by Seamus Heaney, producer Pauline Harris, BBC Audio Drama London

Bess Loves Porgy by Edwin DuBose Heyward, adapted by Roy Williams, producer Gill Parry, feral inc

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, adapted by Robert Macfarlane and Simon McBurney, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions and Complicite

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, adapted by Tim Crouch and Toby Jones, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North

One Moonlit Night by Caradog Prichard, adapted by Rhiannon Boyle, producer Emma Harding, BBC Cymru Wales

Best Original Series or Serial

The 5000 by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, producers Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland

An Eye for a Killing by Colin Macdonald, producer Bruce Young, BBC Scotland

Flirties, written and produced by Jess Simpson, Audiocraft

There’s Something I Need to Tell You by John Scott Dryden and Misha Kawnel, producer Emma Hearn, Goldhawk Productions

The Tomb by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, producer Joby Waldman, Reduced Listening

Trust by Jonathan Hall, producer Gary Brown, BBC Audio Drama North

Best Actor

Hiran Abeysekera, Dear Harry Kane, director Sally Avens, BBC Audio Drama London

Max Irons, The Bronze Horseman, director Susan Roberts, BBC Audio Drama North

Toby Jones, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North

Lorn Macdonald, Confessions of a Justified Sinner, director Kirsty Williams, BBC Scotland

Tim McInerny, Benny & Hitch, director Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London

Tom Walker, Call Jonathan Pie, Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio

Best Actress

Gabrielle Brooks, Bess Loves Porgy, director Michael Buffong, feral inc

Dinita Gohil, Victory City, producer Alison Crawford, BBC Bristol

Maxine Peake, The Women of Troy, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North

Rosamund Pike, People Who Knew Me, director Daniella Isaacs, Merman

Lydia Wilson, Happy Birthday, Mr President, director Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland

Fenella Woolgar, Lines in the Sand: The Journeys of Gertrude Bell, director Jessica Mitic, BBC Audio Drama North

Best Supporting Performance

Sacha Dhawan, Anna Karenina, director Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North

Erin Doherty, The Seagull, director Toby Swift, BBC Audio Drama London

Mark Heap, Kafka’s Dick, director Dermot Daly, Naked Productions

Sophia Del Pizzo, There’s Something I Need to Tell You, director John Scott Dryden, Goldhawk Productions

The Marc Beeby Award for Best Debut Performance

Izzy Campbell, Of a Night, director Jessica Mitic, BBC Audio Drama North

Rosie Ekenna, Faith, Hope and Glory, director Anastasia Osei-Kuffour, BBC Audio Drama London

Rosalind Eleazar, Hindsight, director Gaynor Macfarlane, BBC Scotland

Jadie Rose Hobson, Exposure, director Anne Isger, BBC Audio Drama London

Dan Parr, The Test Batter Can’t Breathe, director Tracey Neale, BBC Audio Drama London

Olivia Triste, Rise, director Dermot Daly, Naked Productions

Best Sit Com or Comedy Drama

Call Jonathan Pie by Tom Walker, producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Yada-Yada Audio

Kat Sadler’s Screen Time by Kat Sadler and Cameron Loxdale, producer Gwyn Rhys Davies, BBC Studios Audio

Michael Spicer: Before Next Door by Michael Spicer, producer Matt Tiller, Starstruck Media

Mockery Manor by Lindsay Sharman, producer Laurence Owen, Long Cat Media

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, adapted by Barunka O’Shaughnessy, producer Emma Harding, BBC Cymru Wales

Where to, Mate? devised by Jo Enright, Peter Slater, Abdullah Afzal, Nina Gilligan, Andy Salthouse, Keith Carter, Jason Wingard, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio

Best Stand Up Comedy

Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere by Daliso Chaponda, additional material Meryl O’Rourke, producer Carl Cooper, BBC Studios Audio

Janey Godley: The C Bomb by Janey Godley, producers Julia Sutherland and Richard Melvin, Dabster Productions

Maisie Adam: The Beautiful Game by Maisie Adam, producer Georgia Keating, BBC Studios Audio

Olga Koch: OK Computer by Olga Koch and Charlie Dinkin, producer Benjamin Sutton, BBC Studios Audio

Rob Newman on Air by Rob Newman, producer Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions

Sarah Keyworth: Are You a Boy or a Girl by by Sarah Keyworth, additional material Ruby Clyde, producer James Robinson, BBC Studios Audio

Best Use of Sound

The Adventurers, sound by Alisdair McGregor, producer Boz Temple-Morris, Holy Mountain

The Dark is Rising, sound by Gareth Fry, producer Catherine Bailey, Catherine Bailey Productions and Complicité

Hamlet Noir, sound by David Chilton, Lucinda Mason Brown, Weronika Andersen, producers Charlotte Melén, Carl Prekopp and Saskia Black, Almost Tangible

Slow Air, sound by Alisdair McGregor and Eloise Whitmore, producer Polly Thomas, Naked Productions

Voices From the End of the World, sound by Peter Ringrose, producer Sasha Yevtushenko, BBC Audio Drama London

The Women of Troy, sound by Sharon Hughes, producer Nadia Molinari, BBC Audio Drama North

Best Podcast Audio Drama

Badger and the Blitz by Richard Turley and Darren Francis, producer Richard Turley, Roxo Ltd

Below by Aaron Gray and Paul Skillen, producer John Wakefield, HTM Television

Flirties, written and produced by Jess Simpson, Audiocraft

The Haunter of the Dark – The Lovecraft Investigations by Julian Simpson, producer Sarah Tombling, Sweet Talk Productions

The Salvation by Justin Lockey, Jeffrey Aidoo, and AK Benedict, producers John Hamm and Boz Temple-Morris, Holy Mountain and Free Turn

Tagged by Brett Neichin and John Scott Dryden, producer Emma Hearn, Sony Music Entertainment and Goldhawk Productions

Best European Drama

Evicted by Karel Klostermann, adapted by Tomáš Loužný, producer Renata Venclová, CZR Czech Radio

Faust (I Never Read It) by Noam Brusilovsky, producer Andrea Oetzmann, SWR Südwestrundfunk with Deutschlandfunk

Irina’s Soul Is Like a Precious Piano by Rona Žulj, producer Katja Šimunić, Croatian Radiotelevision

The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave, adapted by Kai Grehn, producer Lina Kokaly, Radio Bremen

The Supervisor by Nis-Momme Stockmann, producer Michael Becker, NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk

This Word by Marta Rebzda, producer Waldemar Modestowicz, Polish Radio Theatre

-- WooHOO! The Haunter of the Dark, part 4 of The Lovecraft Investigations, is up for a BBC Audio Drama Award! I am made up!

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Kazbek Beauty Products, 1923

Beautiful Vintage Posters Designed By Boris Artzybasheff

Born in 1899 in Kharkov, Boris Artzybasheff was a Russian-American illustrator known for his distinctive and often surreal designs.

His illustration career kicked off in 1922 with works for “Verotchka’s Tales” and “The Undertaker’s Garland,” leading to numerous other book illustrations throughout the 1920s. Throughout his career, he illustrated around 50 books, including some he authored, with “As I See” being among the most notable.

The Last Trumpet, 1937

Nansen by Anna Gertrude Hall, 1940

The Incomplete Enchanter by Fletcher Pratt & L. Sprague de Camp, 1941

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list of people in history who were obviously lovers but historians say otherwise:

· Artemis and Callisto

· Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok

· Hamilton and Laurens

· Sappho and the woman she wrote about

· Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

· Dorothy Arzner and Marion Morgan

· Ethel Collins Dunham and Martha May Elliot

· Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

· Lili Elbe and Gerda Gottlieb

· Michelangelo and Tommaso de Cavalieri

· Edith Anna Somerville and Violet Florence Martin

· Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky

· Walt Whiteman and Peter Doyle

· Radclyffe Hall and Evguenia Souline

· Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon

· Duke Ling and Mizi Xia

· Alexander the Great and Hephaestion

· Achilles and Patroclus

· Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo

· Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas

· Greta Gardo and Mercedes de Acosta

· W. Somerset Maugham and Gerald Haxton

· Anne Lister and Ann Walker

·Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum

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Top 100 Books*

(*As apparently determined by me years ago at age 19, the last age at which I could possibly have determined such a list, in whatever order I thought of them. It is very subjective and based entirely on my personal favorite 5-star books up to that point. It has no rules about how many times an author can appear, and “100″ is a loose guideline, given that sequels and sometimes even series books are counted under 1 number. Not all of the books on this list have held up, but a surprising number of them have.)

1. Black Beauty --Anna Sewell 2. The Incredible Journey --Sheila Burnford 3. San Domingo: Medicine Hat Stallion--Marguerite Henry) 4. X-Files novel: Ruins --Kevin Anderson (2020 note: YEAH THAT'S RIGHT. I will defend its inclusion still, tbh) 5. Harry Potter (whole series) -- J.K. Rowling 6. Firebringer -- John Clement-Davies 7. The Sight -- John Clement-Davies 8. The Mystery of Pony Hollow (& sequel The Mystery of Pony Hollow Panda) -- Lynn Hall 9. Wild Magic (quartet) -- Tamora Pierce 10. Final Grades -- Anita Heyman 11. Golden Sovereign -- Dorothy Lyons 12. Wild Horse Summer -- Hope Ryden 13. The Best Little Girl in the World -- Steven Levenkron 14. The Ark (& sequel, Rowan Farm) -- Margot Benery-Isbert 15. Shadow Horse -- Allison Hart 16. Wild Animals I Have Known -- Ernest Thompson Seton 17. Beautiful Joe -- (Margaret) Marshall Saunders 18. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte 19. Charlotte's Web -- EB White 20. Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) -- Antoine de Saint Exupery 21. Little Women -- Louisa May Alcott 22. The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) -- Roald Dahl 23. Touching Spirit Bear -- Ben Mikaelsen 24. A Horse Called Dragon (& sequels) -- Lynn Hall 25. Silver Chief: Dog of the North - Jack O'Brien 26. Snow Dog - Jim Kjelgaard 27. Buff: A Collie -- Albert Payson Terhune 28. Julie of the Wolves -- Jean Craighead-George 29. Vulpes the Red Fox -- Jean Craighead-George 30. The Perilous Gard -- Elizabeth Marie Pope 31. Summer Pony -- Jean Slaughter Doty 32. The Boxcar Children (series) - Gertrude Chandler Warner 33. The Bear -- James Oliver Curwood 34. Moccasin Trail -- Eloise Jarvis McGraw 35. Quest for Courage -- Stormy Rodolph 36. Lad: A Dog -- Albert Payson Terhune 37. Dog of the High Sierras -- Albert Payson Terhune 38. Sign of the Beaver -- Elizabeth George Speare 39. Little House on the Prairie (series) -- Laura Ingalls Wilder 40. Nop's Trials -- Donald McCaig 41. Bel Ria -- Sheila Burnford 42. The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne 43. Comanche of the Seventh  - Margaret Leighton 44. Whinny of the Wild Horses --Amy C. Laundrie 45. Multiple Choice -- Janet Tashjian 46. Black Unicorn -- Tanith Lee 47. Broken Chords -- Barbara Snow Gilbert 48. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Magic -- Betty McDonald 49. Shamrock Queen (Always Reddy) -- Marguerite Henry 50. Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West -- Marguerite Henry 51. Black Gold -- Marguerite Henry 52. Brighty of the Grand Canyon -- Marguerite Henry 53. White Fang -- Jack London 54. Call of the Wild -- Jack London 55. Gentle Ben -- Walt Morey 56. Bambi -- Felix Salten 57. Shiloh -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 58. The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Biano 59. The Last Unicorn -- Peter S. Beale 60. The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare 61. Dr. Dolittle - Hugh Lofting 62. Outlaw Red -- Jim Kjelgaard 63. Island of the Blue Dolphins -- Scott O'Dell 64. Anne of Green Gables -- Anne M. Montgomery 65. Heidi - Johanna Spyri 66. Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte 67. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew -- Margaret Sidney 68. Peter Pan -- J.M. Barrie 69. All Creatures Great and Small (quartet) - James Herriot 70. The Little White Horse -- Elizabeth Goudge 71. Tomorrow, When the War Began -- John Marsden 72. Candy - Kevin Brooks (2020 Me: but...literally why?) 73. After - Francine Prose 74. What Happened to Lani Garver - Carol Plum-Ucci 75. A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton Porter 76. A Rose for Melinda - Lurlene McDaniel (2020 Me: *SCREECHING*) 77. Briar Rose - Jane Yolen 78. Go Ask Alice - anonymous (2020 Me: *SCREECHING INTENSIFIES*) 79. The White Horse - Cynthia D. Grant 80. Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton 81. Lord of the Kill - Theodore Taylor 82. Leaving Fishers - Margaret Peterson Haddix 83. Pop Princess - Rachel Cohn 84. Make Lemonade - Virginia Euwer Wolff 85. Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin 86. Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey - Margaret Peterson Haddix 87. The Hunger Scream - Ivy Ruckman 88. Blind Beauty - K.M. Peyton 89. The Pig-Out Blues - Jan Greenberg 90. It All Began With Jane Eyre - Sheila Greenwald 91. The Great Pony Hassle - Nancy Springer 92. Thunderwith - Libby Hawthorn 93. Smoky the Cow Horse - Will James 94. Wait Till Helen Comes - Mary Downing Hahn 95. When The Dolls Woke - Marjorie Filley Stover 96. The Cat Who Went to Heaven - Elizabeth Coatsworth 97. Golden Dog - Mary Elwyn Pratchett 98. The Seventh One - Elizabeth Yates 99. 101 Dalmatians - Dodie Smith 100. A Northern Light - Jennifer Donnelly

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For better or for worse, I have a job that is exempt - to a great degree - from the widespread need for isolation (in the world of news radio, the show must go on). However, I do get days off and thank goodness for that because my brain can only take so much constant pandemic talk.

So! I offer up ‘the ultimate music list’, something I started doing on YouTube last year. Maybe earlier. It’s a living list, it will never be complete. Anyway, listen to the way my music mind rambles! All songs listed on the other side of the keep reading line (not linked, you gotta do some of the work):

Seinabo Sey - I Owe You Nothing Janelle Monáe – Django Jane Janelle Monáe - PYNK Janelle Monáe – Make Me Feel Sudan Archives - Come Meh Way Sudan Archives - Come Meh Way & Wake Up | A Take Away Show St. Beauty - Not Discuss It Japanese Breakfast - Boyish St. Beauty - Caught Kali Uchis - After The Storm ft. Tyler, The Creator, Bootsy Collins Kali Uchis - Tomorrow (ft. Tame Impala) Kali Uchis - Dead To Me Kali Uchis - Body Language (Intro) Kali Uchis - Just A Stranger Kali Uchis - In My Dreams Kali Uchis - Flight 22 Sigrid - Strangers King Princess - 1950 Sigrid - Don’t Kill My Vibe Sigrid - Plot Twist Moonchild - The List Amber Mark - Way Back The Internet - Girl DeJ Loaf - Changes Erykah Badu - Window Seat Erykah Badu - Afro Blue M.I.A. - Matangi M.I.A. - Double Bubble Trouble M.I.A. - Paper Planes A Tribe Called Red - The Light II Ft. Lido Pimienta A Tribe Called Red - Sisters ft Northern Voice PRINCESS NOKIA - BRUJAS PRINCESS NOKIA - TOMBOY Solange - Cranes in the Sky Solange - Don't Touch My Hair ft. Sampha SZA - Broken Clocks SZA - Drew Barrymore SZA - Go Gina SZA - Prom SZA - Pretty Little Birds Sade - Flower of the Universe Sade - The Sweetest Taboo Sade - Paradise Sade - Turn My Back On You Sade - Smooth Operator Sade - Cherish the Day Erykah Badu - On & On Jill Scott - A Long Walk Erykah Badu - Tyrone (Live) Janelle Monáe - I Like That Christine and the Queens - Girlfriend Humble the Poet - H.A.I.R. Lush - Desire Lines Lush - Never-Never Rachel Sermanni 'Take Me Out' - Franz Ferdinand Cover Memory House - When You Sleep (Yours Truly Session) Sumner McKane - The Turncoat Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing - The Magnetic Fields (Sense8 Remix) (feat. Zoe Wise) Julia Holter - I Shall Love 2 Dua Lipa - New Rules [Initial Talk 80s Rules Remix] Lady Gaga - Venus (80s Synthwave Version) Ruelle - Take It All Kraak & Smaak Ft. Parcels - Stumble Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa - One Kiss Timecop1983 - Girl (feat. SEAWAVES) Aretha Franklin - Mary, Don't You Weep (Live at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, Los Angeles, January 14, 1972) Sarah Vaughan - Misty (Live from Sweden) Ellie Goulding - My Blood (Kastle Remix) Darksynth Paradise - A NewRetroWave Mix | 1 Hour | Retrowave/ Darkwave/ Electro | Sudan Archives - Nont For Sale Christine and the Queens - 5 dollars Christine and the Queens - Doesn’t matter Christine and the Queens - The walker Christine and the Queens - Damn (what must a woman do) Christine and the Queens - Goya soda Christine and the Queens - The stranger Lone - Poltergeist Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Hear Voices Lost Years - Pressure Windows 95 Start-up remix Windows 95 Startup Sound (Slowed 4000%) Seoul - Silencer Blackwater Holylight - Willow Her's - Low Beam Here We Go Magic - Alone But Moving John Maus - Bennington AC Temple - Yield Lana del Rey - Summertime Sadness (SxAde Synthwave Version) Ariana Grande - "Into You"  80′s Remix Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer   80′s Remix Fifth Harmony - Sledgehammer   80′s Remix Lady Gaga - Perfect Illusion   80s Remix Ariana Grande - Greedy [Initial Talk "90s state of mind" Remix] Happy Hippie Presents: Miley Cyrus & Ariana Grande - Don't Dream It's Over Mariah Carey - Touch My Body [Initial Talk 90s Splash! Remix] Dua Lipa - IDGAF (Initial Talk Remix) 憂鬱 - Sun Lady Gaga - Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?) Robyn - Honey Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again Floating Points - Nuits Sonores Sade - The Big Unknown Amanda Shires - Leave It Alone Crockett - City of Ghosts [Full Album] Toni Harper - "The Velvet Hammer" (stereo), 1959 Cristina - "Things Fall Apart" Dexter Gordon - What’s New Warren Zevon - Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead - Rochester, 1994 Le1f - Wut Katie Herzig - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These) Raymond Scott - "Boy Scout In Switzerland" - Quartet San Francisco (arranged by Robert Gilmore) Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - Aimee & Jaguar Main Theme Toni Harper - "The Other Woman"  Toni Harper - The meaning of the blues Vanessa - Upside Down Anna Ternheim - Summer Rain feat. Nina Kinert, Ane Brun, First Aid Kit and Ellekari Larsson of The Tiny Ella Fitzgerald & Bill Doggett ~ Rough Ridin' Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd,Robin Guthrie - South Of Heaven (Winter Garden) Slum Village - Fall in Love (Instrumental) Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie Dave Berry - This Strange Effect Sarah Harmer - Basement Apartment The Original Stroll - February 1958 Gertrude Lawrence - My Sweet Gustav HOLST: St. Paul's Suite (III. Intermezzo, IV. Finale) Rumskib - Secrets Caterina Valente - Stranger In Paradise Borodin - Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances Darshan Ambient - Mirage Girl Crisis - Smooth Operator Girl Crisis - Paranoid Mulatu Astatke's "Mulatu" Vivien Goldman - Launderette Jonatha Brooke - West Point Lesley Gore - You Don’t Own Me Matthew Schoening - Emotional Clockwork Molly Nilsson - Hey Moon Kate Bush - Cloudbusting (The Organon Mix re-edit) Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky FIREBIRD COMPLETE The Carter Family - Wildwood Flower Grimes - Vanessa Kenneth Bager Fr. one (...and I kept hearing) Land of Talk - It’s Okay Nite Jewel - Artificial Intelligence Geneva Jacuzzi - Clothes On the Bed Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood - Karma Police | Glastonbury Festival, Pilton UK (8/9) Maps of Norway - Traffic Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions Aerosmith - Crazy Bruce Kaphan - Undeserved Ending The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "Everything With You" Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Body Janelle Monae - "Tightrope" 5/18 Letterman Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler Ladyhawke - My Delirium Marion Cotillard & Franz Ferdinand - Eyes of Mars Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (live) Kate Bush - Army Dreamers Tegan and Sara - Living Room Kate Bush - Cloudbusting Beatrice Eli - Girls NewRetroWave End of 2017 Mix - (The Future Beckons) - [80s/ Retrowave/ Outrun/ Retro Electro] Vaporwave / Chillwave - Ultimate Mix The Chordettes "Lollipop" & "Mr. Sandman" Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding Taylor Davis - Stranger Things Violin Medley STRANGER THINGS MEETS CLASSICAL GUITAR Grace Sings Sludge - Difficult To Love Satchmode - Happiness Part 1 River Whyless - Life Crisis Stefano Barone - Batman - Alexander Supertramp Bebel Gilberto - "Aganjú"(Ao Vivo) - Bebel Gilberto In Rio Katie Melua - Diamonds are Forever  Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me Beulahbelle - You Only Live Twice (Living Room Version) Grimes - We Appreciate Power Meshell Ndegeocello - Sensitivity Kodacrome - Buckets Röyksopp - Remind Me Lizzo - Juice Lizzo - Truth Hurts Lizzo - Good As Hell Electrelane - To the East Electrelane - I only always think Sean Paul - Get Busy 憂鬱 - Azure Day (Full EP) 憂鬱 - Slow Suzanne Vega - Luka | The story behind the song Seoul - Real June Broken Social Scene on House of Strombo Show Big Boi’s Favorite Verse: Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” Cherry Glazerr - Nurse Ratched  Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - Aimée & Jaguar Mister Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind Grant Green - Idle Moments Hole Reunion after 15 yrs. Teeth - Care Bear ST. VINCENT covers BIG BLACK at BOWERY BALLROOM NYC May 22 2011 Broadcast - Man is not a bird (Teac A-4010 s Reel to Reel) Billy May - So Nice (Samba De Verão) Pogo - Mellow Brick Road Anna Calvi - Jezebel (Attic Sessions 5) Anna Calvi - Joan Of Arc (Attic Sessions 4) Anna Calvi - Surrender (Attic Sessions 3) Anna Calvi - Sound & Vision (Attic Sessions 1) Anna Calvi - Wolf Like Me (Attic Sessions 2) Clementine - ALL BLUES Skip James - Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues Anna Calvi - Suzanne And I Total Slacker - Thyme Traveling High School Dropout Siouxsie & The Banshees- Metal (Elizabethan Suite 1977) Second Chorus (Charlie North Remix) The Castaways - Liar Liar Alex Gaudino Feat. Christal Waters - Destination Calabria Loose Ends - Hangin’ On a String Pizzicato Five - The Audrey Hepburn Complex Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian The Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) The Human League - Don’t You Want Me The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days PJ Harvey - Hanging in the Wire PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me PJ Harvey & Thom Yorke - This Mess We’re In PJ Harvey - We Float PJ Harvey - This Wicked Tongue PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home The Sundays - Here’s Where The Story Ends Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song The Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way Hall & Oates - Out of Touch Hall & Oates - I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) Toto - Rosanna Toto - Africa Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels Philip Bailey, Phil Collins - Easy Lover Spandau Ballet - True Tears For Fears - Shout Sigrid - Don’t Feel Like Crying Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir The Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies The Ocean Blue - Between Something and Nothing No Joy - Hollywood Teeth Tamaryn - Last Tamaryn - Softcore Tamaryn - Cranekiss Ashrae Fax - CHKN Echo & the Bunnymen - A Promise Ashrae Fax - Intexus The Motels - Only the Lonely Other Colors - Dark Things Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything George Clanton - It Makes the Babies Want to Cry Ben Howard - Nica Libres At Dusk Elton John - Bennie and the Jets Elton John - Don't Go Breaking My Heart (with Kiki Dee) David Bowie - Life On Mars? Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight  St Vincent Breaks Down Her Most Iconic Songs Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (instrumental) Death Valley Girls "Disaster (Is What We're After)" A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better Childish Gambino - Redbone De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays Choir! Choir! Choir! Sings David Bowie - Heroes Kishi Bashi - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) The 6ths - You You You You You Squirrel Nut Zippers "Put A Lid On It" Joni Mitchell - Help Me Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker - "Shadows And Light" Joni Mitchell - All I Want Joni Mitchell - Free Man In Paris Joni Mitchell - California Joni Mitchell - In France They Kiss On Main Street Joni Mitchell - Amelia Joni Mitchell - People’s Parties Joni Mitchell - For the Roses Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns Joni Mitchell - Black Crow Joni Mitchell - Hejira Joni Mitchell - Coyote Joni Mitchell w/Peter Gabriel - My Secret Place Joni Mitchell - Down To You Joni Mitchell - Refuge of the Roads Joni Mitchell - Slouching Towards Bethlehem  Joni Mitchell - Shades of Scarlet Conquering Joni Mitchell - Cool Water (with Willie Nelson) Joni Mitchell - The Jungle Line Joni Mitchell - Song For Sharon Joni Mitchell - Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire Joni Mitchell - Night Ride Home Joni Mitchell - Taming the Tiger Joni Mitchell - Snakes & Ladders Joni Mitchell - Raised on Robbery Joni Mitchell - Jericho Joni Mitchell - Lakota Joni Mitchell - The Beat of Black Wings Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I’m A Radio (Live) The Delfonics - Ready or Not Here I Come Funkadelic - Maggot Brain Incredible Bongo Band - Apache The Stylistics - People Make The World Go Round Manual - Crockett’s Theme Jessica Pratt - This Time Around Jessica Pratt - Poly Blue Jessica Pratt - Baby, Back Jessica Pratt - Aeroplane Tony Allen - Stick Around Basia - Promises Basia - New Day For You Basia - Cruising For Bruising Basia - Drunk On Love Basia - Third Time Lucky America - Tin Man Weyes Blood - Andromeda Ladytron - Far From Home Ladytron - Deadzone Ladytron - The Island St. Vincent & Dua Lipa | Masseduction / One Kiss | 2019 GRAMMYs Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel (LIVE at the 61st GRAMMYs) Still Corners - The Trip Still Corners - Strange Pleasures FM-84 - Bend & Break Robyn - Send To Robin Immediately The Ultimate Kate Bush Experience - Shambush Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill Kate Bush - Hounds of Love [Full Album] Kate Bush - Babooshka Kate Bush - The Sensual World Kate Bush - Hammer Horror Kate Bush - Love and Anger Katie Lee - Stay as Sick as You Are America - You Can Do Magic Blonde Redhead - Magic Mountain Harry Nilsson - Gotta Get Up In These Streets Lorelle Meets the Obsolete - Unificado Sneaks - Ecstasy Linear Movement - Way Out Of Living Alex Lilly - Pornographic Mind Caribou - Melody Day (Four Tet Remix feat. Luke Lalonde Adem and One Little Plane) Def Leppard - Hysteria Sigrid - Sight of You The Charlie Steinmann Orchestra And Singers - It's Such a Good Night (Scoobidoo Love) Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile Les McCann - Roberta Pharoah Sanders - Astral Travelling  Pure Bathing Culture - Scotty Jamila Woods - EARTHA Patricia Barber - Too Rich For My Blood Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long LL Cool J - Around the Way Girl Keep Shelly In Athens - Bendable Absolute Jest: I. Beginning · John Adams · San Francisco Symphony · St. Lawrence String Quartet · Michael Tilson Thomas Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule the World Futurecop! - Fade Away (feat. NINA) Steve Gunn - New Moon Moving Panoramas - ADD Heart Elizabeth Barraclough - Don’t TV Me Klymaxx - Meeting In the Ladies Room Salt Cathedral - Go and Get It feat. 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[hamletandthegang]

The Play (Part II)

“Can you seriously not see it? They look the same.” Horatio asked exasperatedly. He was standing by Hamlet’s chair, and leaning on the top of it, waiting for the play to begin and watching the troupe scramble to prepare.

“Nah, dude. I think you're tripping,” Hamlet yawned, and looked over to where his uncle was talking to Polonius. The entire play was set. Horatio would watch Claudius from across the balcony, and Ophelia would watch him from the other side. Ophelia was already sitting where her father’s usual seat was. The lights began to dim, and Horatio put a hand on Hamlet’s head before going over to his spot.

Gertrude was sitting in her chair, and brought her ornamental opera glasses up to her eyes. Polonius scrambled over to Ophelia, and sat down in a huff. Everyone quieted down as the curtain opened and one of the actors walked out.

The actress was a tall African woman with short hair. She was wearing a fake tiara and was dramatically motioning as a second actor, a tall, skinny dude with black curly hair, walked out from behind the curtain. They silently acted out a scene, wherein the actor pretended to get tired and lie down, as the first actress waved goodbye and walked behind the curtain.

The curtains suddenly were thrown open as a third actor marched out with a small vial. He was an older guy with a stoic expression. He sneakily poured the vials’ contents into the sleeping actor’s ear, to which he comedically flailed about and dramatically died.

Hamlet stared intensely at his uncle. Horatio did the same from across the balcony. So far he had shown no emotion, and sat focused on the show. He glanced at Gertrude when the poisoner began to woo the queen. Gertrude seemed confused and slightly perturbed by the mock show, which only made Claudius nervous. The show continued, to a wedding between the queen and the poisoner, while the old king’s son grieved in the distance.

It was either a tear or sweat, Hamlet couldn’t tell, but it slid down Claudius’ face just the same. He gasped for breath, just as the mock wedding had ended and a ghost of the old king came on stage. He had fake blood dripping out of one ear. Claudius stood, and the court immediately began to murmur.

“Make it stop,” He whispered, a sound barely audible, and yet Hamlet heard. “Lights! Stop the show! Lights!” Claudius flailed about and shouted.

Hamlet knew the truth, and sat back in his chair as his senses overloaded. The lights immediately flashed on, the court began shouting and yelling, and all of the sudden, Hamlet felt a cold blade up against the side of his neck.

He glanced behind him, and saw that the leader of the troupe, the lady with the pink braids, was holding a switchblade to his throat. No one noticed in all the chaos, and Hamlet sat completely still.

“What do you want?” He said quietly.

“What I came here to do,” She whispered in his ear.

This would have been the end of Hamlet, had Horatio not seen what was happening just in time.

“Hey!” He shouted, and shoved Gertrude’s empty chair. It fell over and the woman leaped out of the way before it could land on her. Hamlet took a breath, and jumped out of his chair. Horatio grabbed his hand and took off towards where Ophelia was. The actors realized what was happening, and ran backstage. The leader of the troupe pursued Hamlet, switch blade in hand. Horatio grabbed Ophelia’s hand and brought her along, as the trio ran down the steps and out into the castle. The woman knocked into Polonius, threw him aside, and continued after the trio.

They ran as fast as their legs would carry them. They sped along the carpeted halls, and would have made it to the great hall, where the guard would help them, except the rest of the troupe appeared in their way, barring the exit.

Hamlet took off around the corner, and Ophelia and Horatio followed. The troupe was hot on their trail, but Hamlet rounded another corner, jumped up a flight of stairs, took a brick out of the wall, and shoved open a secret passageway. He pushed Ophelia and Horatio in, and slammed the secret door shut just as the troupe was rounding the corner. The three of them sat on the floor, breathing hard from the chase.

“Where’s the others? Are they still on the balcony?” Ophelia asked nervously.

“Maybe, but since the troupe is chasing us, they’ll be safe for a little bit. We should meet up with them.” Hamlet stood and began to find his way along the dimly lit passageway.

“Do you believe me now?” Horatio huffed.

“About what?” Hamlet turned around.

“They are the rebels!”

“Oh. Yeah, I guess so. I still don’t really see it. There’s a lot of people who want to kill me, you know.”

Horatio let out an exasperated sigh.

“Let’s go get the others. Lead the way, Hamlet.”

And so they did. Hamlet led them through the passage, and they made it to a vent in the floor of the balcony where they were only minutes before. A few minutes later, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Annalise, Ben, and Marc were crawling into the passage through the large vent. The crowd had left the balcony, so no one suspected anything as the group crawled right below them.

They sat on the floor of the passage, just catching their breath and figuring out what to do. Ben and Marc had joined them for the play, and were holding hands as they sat next to each other.

“That’s kinda gay,” Rosencrantz teased them lightly.

“Uhh, yeah?” Ben looked at him confusedly.

“We’ve been dating for three months.” Marc said, staring at Rosencrantz.

“What? When did that happen?” Guildenstern asked.

“Like, a long time ago? Where have you guys been? Our three month anniversary was yesterday.”

“Oh, three months?! I’m so happy for you guys!” Annalise hugged Marc.

“Anna, you knew about this?” Hamlet asked.

“Sure I did!” She smiled.

Everyone laughed and congratulated the couple. They waited until the noise in the castle had died down and the rebels had been sent away by Claudius. Then they crawled out of the passage into the dark hall. It had been quite the evening. The play had fallen apart, but Hamlet knew what he needed now.

Claudius was guilty; the ghost was right. Hamlet’s objective: revenge.

[opera-ghosts]

Gertrude Kappel was born on September 1st 1884 in Halle an der Saale, Germany. started to study singing at the Leipzig Conservatory as a pupil of Arthur Nikisch. Already on the occasion of her debut at the Opera House of Hanover in Beethoven´s “Fidelio“ in 1904 her voice caused quite a stir. She was offered a permanent engagement and soon sang her first big role, Salome. Although she was generally considered to be a mezzo soprano, Kappel was repeatedly cast in soprano roles. In 1912 she made her debut at the Covent Garden Opera in London as Brünnhilde in “Die Walküre“ and “Götterdämmerung“. One year later, she repeated these two roles and added Venus and Elisabeth in “Tannhäuser“ under the direction of Arthur Nikisch and, again, returned to London in 1914 to sing the three “Ring“-Brünnhilden. At the Opera House of Hanover she was heard as Donna Anna, Pamina, Aida, Santuzza, Elektra and Octavian, but also in operetta-roles, such as Saffi in “Der Zigeunerbaron“ or Rosalinde in “Die Fledermaus“. Richard Strauss, who had followed her career with great interest, recommended her to the Vienna State Opera, where Kappel made her first appearance in 1921. Under Strauss´ direction she sang Donna Anna at the Salzburg Festival in 1922.

Bruno Walter brought her back to London for his production of the “Ring“, where her partners were Lotte Lehmann, Maria Olszewska and Jacques Urlus. In 1925 she was, again, acclaimed by the London public under Bruno Walter as Elektra and Senta. In the years 1925 and 1926 the singer appeared in Vienna as Färberin in “Die Frau ohne Schatten“, “Walküre“-Brünnhilde, Ortrud, in “Violanta“ by Erich Korngold and in “Die Königin von Saba“. At the New York Metropolitan Opera Gertrude Kappel made her debut in 1928 as Isolde (with Rudolf Laubenthal, Karin Branzell and Michael Bohnen), which became one of her greatest personal triumphs. In New York she was heard as Brünnhilde, Kundry, Fricka in “Rheingold“, Leonore in „Fidelio“, Elektra and in a series of performances of “La Juive“ with Giovanni Martinelli. Her farewell performance at the MET took place in 1935 as “Walküre“-Brünnhilde with Flagstad and Melchior as her partners.

Although Kappel´s name will remain principally linked to the works of Richard Wagner, her repertory in both the French and Italian fach was impressive, too. Apart from her outstanding vocal merits, critics praised her ability to shape and „sense“ the characters of the roles she impersonated on stage. Astonishingly, this excellent singer, who has enjoyed a great international career, has left all too few recordings: in 1911 “Favorite“ produced 16 titles and only in 1924 she recorded 6 titles for “Grammophon“, three further recordings remained unpublished. Gertrude Kappel died near Munich in Bavaria on April 3rd 1971.

[newingtonnow]

Trolley Campaigners Storm Small Towns and Votes for Women is the Battle Cry

By Kathleen Motes Bennewitz

“The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA) continues to stir the State with its unique trolley campaign,” penned The Woman’s Journal, a venerable weekly published in Boston, on March 2, 1912. The suffrage drive being extolled was the “Votes for Women Trolley Campaign,” the tactical innovation of CWSA state organizer Emily Pierson. For three months—from January 24 to March 21—the campaign held rallies at every municipality with trolley stops—46 in all—in Fairfield, New Haven, and Hartford counties.

“Votes for Women Automobile Tour Through Litchfield County,” August 1911 – Courtesy of Dr. Kenneth Florey

The trolley campaign built on the success of the CWSA’s August 1911 “Votes for Women Automobile Tour through Litchfield County.” On that benchmark campaign, “the quiet tree-lined streets” of 27 towns were “invaded by automobiles” carrying parties of recent college graduates and state suffrage leaders. The women, along with guest speakers, galvanized audiences at meetings, adding new members and equal franchise leagues along the way.

For the lengthier winter trolley campaign, Pierson strategically leveraged a more expansive transportation network operated by the Connecticut Company, which at its peak in the 1910s ran over 2,200 cars on nearly 800 miles of track. Her route, planned along lines running from the New York border at Greenwich to the Massachusetts line near Suffield, made for an affordable, convenient way to travel to the events. Also central to the plan was that Fairfield, New Haven, and Hartford counties collectively contained 78 of the state’s 168 municipalities and 75 percent of the general population, which had grown exponentially with surges in immigration. By attracting large, broad audiences from the local and neighboring communities to its rallies, the CWSA sought to expand its support base, fund-raise, and win over voting men as well as influential citizens and legislators to help support woman’s franchise in upcoming sessions of the General Assembly.

Another newsworthy element was the speaker roster of over 80 prominent public figures and reformers from Connecticut, across the nation, and England. The remarkable list included US senators, a state governor, college presidents and professors, labor union leaders, and such notables as Inez Mullholland, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, Rheta Childe Dorr, and English suffragists Ethel M. Arnold, Margaret G. Bondfield, and Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale; among the men were Charles Beard, Stanton Coit, Max Eastman, John H. Light, Owen Lovejoy, Ernest Thompson Seton, Lincoln Steffens, and Charles Zeublin.

Connecticut Suffragists Take to the Rails

“Votes for Women Trolley Campaign” program; inscribed by Caroline Ruutz-Rees, CWSA Fairfield County chairman, to Mrs. Agnes E. Blanchard, librarian, South Norwalk Public Library. Elise M. Hill Scrapbook (1912) – Clara Mossman Hill and Elsie M. Hill Collection, Fairfield Museum and History Center Library.

The CWSA launched the trolley campaign on January 24 at Bridgeport’s Warner Hall, with speaker Max Eastman—the secretary of the New York City’s Men’s League for Woman Suffrage and the soon-to-be editor of the socialist periodical, The Masses. It culminated with great fanfare on March 28th at Parson’s Theatre in Hartford. In between, Pierson’s “trolley leaguers” crisscrossed each county at a dizzying pace, presenting four to six evening rallies per week.

Throngs of fervent suffragists, together with the curious, undecided, and even antis, filled the venues—town halls, theaters, libraries, and beach casinos—to hear the reformers and calls to mobilize from Katharine Houghton Hepburn, Josephine Day Bennett, Annie Gertrude Porritt, and other CWSA leaders. Emily Pierson was on the dais at practically every stop to share the objectives for waging this campaign, especially in small towns. Since each municipality, regardless of size, was represented by two representatives in Hartford, making full suffrage a local issue, she explained, could influence the nomination and election of pro-suffrage legislators.

Decorated automobiles of CWSA suffragists swarmed Litchfield County in August 1911 – CWSA Records (RG 101), Connecticut State Library.

The 1912 trolley crusade proved tremendously successful with over 23,400 people addressed and 2,320 new supporters signing a petition declaring, “I believe in equal suffrage for men and women.” For many towns, the campaign was a maiden suffrage event or launched an equal franchise league, and by the November 1912 annual meeting, the CWSA had increased its auxiliaries from 18 to 47, with many emerging along this campaign route.

In the wake of the trolley campaign, the suffrage movement rapidly gained ground across the state. To push the momentum, the CWSA next invaded New London County with a summer automobile tour, then planned campaigns for the remaining three counties. As The Woman’s Journal aptly stated that July, “For the Connecticut suffragists, every year is a campaign year, and both the State Association and the local leagues, which are affiliated with it, are determined that there shall be no slackening of activities until an amendment of the State constitution has granted Votes for Women.”

Kathleen Motes Bennewitz serves as Westport’s town curator and helps manage the Westport Public Art Collections. She has worked for art and historical museums across the country and today is an independent American art historian and exhibition curator.

from Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project https://connecticuthistory.org/trolley-campaigners-storm-small-towns-and-votes-for-women-is-the-battle/

[bellus-spiritus]

@tunjiaj in ALL OF THEM WITCHES 🔮🧹 a fun show @jeffreydeitchgallery LA organized by @dannadel & @lauriesimmons ⠀ The exhibition arose fr a conversation Dan & Laurie have been having for years about their shared affinity for a certain kind of art to which they're drawn to, can’t quite name, but recognize when they see it. Artworks & artists that share an affinity w what they thought of as a “witchy” sensibility, using the iconography of the #supernatural, #occult & #witchcraft to channel ideas about power, the body & gender. 〰️ “In a time of constant historical and thematic artistic rediscoveries, we present a breadcrumb trail that already exists—a shared language across generations of artists who share in a knowledge of, and taste for, a bit of cauldron and a touch of darkness.” -Dan Nadel & Laurie Simmons ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ The artists participating are: Gertrude Abercrombie #TunjiAdeniyiJones Janine Antoni Auste Sylvie Auvray Heather Benjamin Ellen Berkenblit Judith Bernstein Amy Bessone Alison Blickle Sascha Braunig Melissa Brown Cameron Ellen Carey Sarah Charlesworth #JudyChicago Colette Myrlande Constant Niki de Saint Phalle Georganne Deen Jimmy DeSana Trenton Doyle Hancock Renate Druks Hayden Dunham Celeste Dupuy Spencer Rachel Feinstein Audrey Flack Sylvie Fleury Anna Gaskell Tamara Gonzales Trulee Hall Allison Janae Hamilton Lyle Ashton Harris Judy Hudson Marguerite Humeau Cameron Jamie Jane Kaplowitz Caitlin Keough Aline Kominsky-Crumb Suzy Lake Greer Lankton Judith Linhares Michael Mahalchick Guadalupe Maravilla Juanita McNeely Ana Mendieta #MarilynMinter Shana Moulton Jill Mulleady Willa Nasatir Shirin Neshat Bea Nettles Niagara Kayode Ojo Breyer P-Orridge Maia Cruz Palileo #ArianaPapademetropoulos Kembra Pfahler Keisha Scarville Carolee Schneeman Michelle Segre #CindySherman Hollis Sigler #XavieraSimmons Jack Smith Kiki Smith Nancy Spero Francine Spiegel Robert Therrien John Torreano Deborah Turbeville Andra Ursuta Marnie Weber Matthew Weinstein Karen Yasinsky #LisaYuskavage __ #allofthemwitches #dannadel #lauriesimmons #jeffreydeitch #friezeweek #oscars #friezela #BlackExcellence #RepresentationMatters #blackbeauty #artcurator #artadvisor #destineeross (at Jeffrey Deitch) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8cE8i0ldL1/?igshid=1fbe3yqudq6yj

[afaimsarrowverse]

Personae Dramatis

Das Arrowverse ist groß und nicht immer übersichtlich und mein Verse ist das ebenfalls, daher hier eine Orientierungshilfe für all jene, die vielleicht nicht alle Serien und Staffeln kennen, damit sie nachschauen kennen wer wer ist:

Personae Dramatis:

Kompass-Verse:

 Die Legends:

 Sara Lance, The Canary, White Canary, Captain Lance, Mitglied der Liga der Assassinen, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Anführerin der Legends

 Ray Palmer, The Atom, Mitglied der Legends, Verbündeter von Team Arrow

 Martin Stein, Hälfte von Firestorm, Mitglied der Legends

 Jefferson Jackson, Hälfte von Firestorm, Mitglied der Legends

 Mick Rory, Heatwave, Mitglied der Legends

 Rip Hunter, Captain Hunter, Gründer der Legends, ein Time-Master

 Nate Heywood, Steel, Mitglied der Legends

 Amaya Jiwe, Vixen, Mitglied der JSA, Mitglied der Legends

 Gideon, KI der Waverider des Schiffs der Legends

 Leonard Snart, Captain Cold, Mitglied der Legends, Meisterdieb, Partner von Mick Rory, Gründer der Rogues

 Kendra Saunders, Chay-Ara, Hawkgirl, Mitglied der Legends

 Carter Hall, Prinz Kufu, Hawkman, Mitglied der Legends

 John Constantine, ein Magier, Mitglied der Legends

 Ava Sharpe, Agentin und spätere Direktorin des Time Bureau, Ava-12, Geliebte von Sara

 Zari Tomaz, Mitglied der Legends

 Axl, eine Ratte

 Charlie, eine Gestaltenwandlerin, Mitglied der Legends

 Mona Wu, Wolfie, Angestellte des Time Bureaus, Mitglied der Legends

 Leo Snart, Leonard Snart X, Citizen Cold, Mitglied der Legends, stammt von Erde-X

 Nora Darhk, Eleanor, Damien Dahrks Tochter, Mitglied der Order, Gefäß von Mallus, Frenemie der Legends

 Behrad Tomaz, Zaris Bruder, Mitglied der Legends

  Die Legion der Verdammnis:

 Eobard Thawne, Harrison Wells, Reverse Flash, Anführer von Team Flash, Gründer der Legion der Verdammnis

 Damien Darhk, Mitglied der Liga der Assassinen, Gründer von Hive, Mitglied der Liga der Verdammnis, Vorstand der Order, Anhänger von Mallus

 Malcolm Merlyn, der Magier, Ra’s al Ghul, Anführer der Liga der Assassinen, Frenemie von Team Arrow, Mitglied der Liga der Verdammnis

  Verbündete der Legends:

 Nyssa al Ghul, Erbin des Dämons, Tochter des Dämons, Mitglied der Liga der Assassinen, Geliebte von Sara

 Ronnie Raymond, Hälfte von Firestorm, Verbündeter von Team Flash

 Masako Yamashiro, Auserwählte vom Shogun, Geliebte von Nate Heywood

 Jonah Hex, ein Revolvermann, Verbündeter der Legends

 Mari McCabe, Vixen, Enkelin von Amaya Jiwe

 Gary Green, ein Zeitagent, John Constantines Geliebter

 Garima, eine Kriegerprinzessin

  Feinde der Legends:

 Vandal Savage, Unsterblicher Despot

 Shogun, ein japanischer Herrscher

 Mallus, ein Dämon

 Tabitha, eine gute Fee

 Neron, ein Dämon

 Astra Logue, eine Seele aus der Hölle

  Die JSA:

 Henry Heywood, Commander Steel, Fieldleader der JSA, Großvater von Nate

 Rex Tyler, Hourman, Anführer der JSA, Versprochener von Amaya

  Die Familie Hunter:

 Miranda Coburn, eine Beinahe Time-Masterin, Ehefrau von Rip Hunter

 Jonas Hunter, Sohn von Rip Hunter und Miranda Coburn

  Die Familie Stein:

 Clarissa Stein, Ehefrau von Martin Stein

 Lily Stein, Tochter von Martin und Clarissa, Wissenschaftlerin

  Die Familie Snart:

 Lisa Snart, Golden Glider, Leonards Schwester

 Lewis Snart, Leonard Snarts Vater, ein Krimineller

 Mrs. Snart, Mutter von Lisa und Leonard

  Die Familie Heywood:

 Hank Heywood, Vater von Nate, Sohn von Henry

 Doris Heywood, Hanks Ehefrau, Mutter von Nate

  Die Familie Rory:

 Dick Rory, Mick Rorys Vater, ein Soldat

 Mrs. Rory, Micks Mutter, Dicks Ehefrau

  Team Arrow:

 Oliver Queen, The Hood, der Bogenschütze, die Kapuze, Arrow, Green Arrow, Al-sa-Him, Mitglied der Bratva, Gründer von Team Arrow, Mitglied der Liga der Assassinen

 Laurel Lance, Dinah Laurel Lance, Black Canary, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Schwester von Sara, Anwältin

 Felicity Smoak, Overwatch, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Geliebte von Ray Palmer, Partnerin von Oliver Queen

 Thea Queen, Speedy, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Schwester von Oliver, Tochter von Malcolm Merlyn

 John Diggle, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Agent von Argus, Soldat

 Roy Harper, Arsenal, Mitglied von Team Arrow

 Curtis Holt, Mister Terrific, Mitglied von Team Arrow

 Rene Ramirez, Wild Dog, Mitglied von Team Arrow

 Dinah Drake, Black Canary, Mitglied von Team Arrow

  Die Familie Lance:

 Quentin Lance, Captain Lance, Detektive Lance, Officer Lance, The Detective, Vater von Sara und Laurel, Polizist

 Dinah Lance, seine Ehefrau, Mutter von Sara und Laurel

  Feinde von Oliver Queen:

 Vincent Sobal, Vinnie, Vigilante, Mitglied der Kabal, Dinahs Geliebter

 Ra‘s al Ghul, Kopf des Dämons, Anführer der Liga der Assasinen, Vater von Talia und Nyssa

 Isabel Rochev, Ravager, eine aufstrebende Geschäftsfrau, ehemalige Geliebte von Robert Queen

  Verbündete von Oliver Queen:

 Shado, Bogenschützin, Geliebte von Oliver

 Tommy Merlyn, bester Freund von Oliver, Sohn von Malcom Merlyn, Halbbruder von Thea Queen, Geliebter von Laurel Lance

 Lyla Michales, Harbinger, John Diggles Frau

 Billy Malone, ein Polizist in Star City, Freund von Felicity Smoak

  Die Familie Queen:

 Moira Queen, eine Geschäftsfrau, Olivers und Theas Mutter

 Robert Queen, Olivers Vater, Moiras Ehemann

 Walter Steele, Moiras zweiter Ehemann, bester Freund von Robert Queen

  Best Frenemies Team Arrow:

 Slade Wilson, Deathstroke, Geheimagent, Mirakuru-Soldat, Fremenie von Oliver

  Team Flash:

 Barry Allen, The Flash, die Schemen, Gründer von Team Flash

 Caitlin Snow, Mitglied von Team Flash, Ehefrau von Ronnie Raymond

 Frost, Caitlin Snows alternative Persönlichkeit, besitzt Eiskräfte

 Cisco Ramon, Vibe, Mitglied von Team Flash

 Joe West, Mitglied von Team Flash, Ziehvater von Barry, Polizist

 Iris West, Mitglied von Team Flash, Barrys Ehefrau, Joes Tochter, Reporterin

 Eddie Thawne, Mitglied von Team Flash, Joes Partner, Iris Geliebter, Polizist

 Wally West, Kid Flash, Sohn von Joe, Bruder von Iris, Mitglied von Team Flash

 Harry Wells, Mitglied von Team Flash, Doppelgänger von Harrison Wells von Erde-2

 Jesse Wells, Jesse Quick, Tochter von Harry Wells

 Ralph Dibny, Elongated Man, Mitglied von Team Flash, Privatdetektiv (m/A)

 Cecile Horton, Mitglied von Team Flash, Gefährtin von Joe West, Anwältin

 Nora West-Allen, XS, Tochter von Barry und Iris, kommt aus der Zukunft um diese zu ändern

  Die Familie Allen:

 Nora Allen, Barrys Mutter

 Henry Allen, Barrys Vater

  Verbündete von Team Flash:

 David Singh, Captain Singh, Polizist, Verbündeter von Team Flash

 Gypsy, Cynthia, Cindy, Freundin von Cisco

 Breacher, Josh, ihr Vater (m/A)

 Kamilla Hwang, eine Fotografin, Ciscos Freundin

  Feinde von Team Flash:

 Orlin Dwyer, Cicada, ein Fabrikarbeiter mit einer tragischen Familiengeschichte (m/A)

 Grace Gibbons, Cicada, Nichte von Orlin Dwyer, nicht zufrieden mit ihrer Vergangenheit (f/O)

  Team Supergirl:

 Kara Danvers, Kara Zor-El, Supergirl, Agentin des DEO, Gründerin der Superfriends, Kryptonierin, Reporterin

 Alex Danvers, Agentin und spätere Leiterin des DEO, Ziehschwester von Kara Danvers, Mitglied der Superfriends

 J’onn J’onzz, der Marsianer, Martian Manhunter, Direktor des DEO, letzter grüner Marsianer, Mitglied der Superfriends

 James Olsen, Guardian, ein Fotograf, Mitglied der Superfriends

 Winn Schott, Agent des DEO, Mitglied der Superfriends, Informatiker

 Maggie Sawyer, Polizistin, Alexs Geliebte

 Mon-El, Valor, Prinz von Daxam, Mitglied der Superfriends, Agent des DEO, Gründer der Legion of Superheroes

  Best Frenemies Supergirl:

 Lena Luthor, eine Geschäftsfrau, Geliebte von James Olsen

 Malefic J’onzz, J’onns Bruder

  Verbündete von Supergirl:

 Clark Kent, Kal-El, Superman, ein Reporter, Cousin von Supergirl

 Sam Arias, Geschäftsfrau und kryptonisches Experiment

 Ruby Arias, ihre Tochter

 Imra Ardeen, Saturn Girl, Mitglied der Legion der Superhelden, Verbündete des DEO, Ehefrau von Mon-El

 Lois Lane, Reporterin, Gefährtin von Clark Kent, Schwester von Lucy

 M’gann M’orzz, Miss Martian, eine weiße Marsianerin, die innerlich grün ist, J’onns Gefährtin

  Feinde von Supergirl:

 Reign, Weltenkillerin von Krypton, teilt sich den Körper mit Sam Arias

 Lex Luthor, Bruder von Lena Luthor, Geschäftsmann, Wissenschaftler, Mann von Morgen, Intimfein von Superman

 Hank Henshaw, Cyborg Superman, DEO-Agent, Cadmus-Agent, Tarnidentität von J’onn J‘onzz

  Bewohner von Erde-X:

 Kara Zor El X, der General, Overgirl, Eroberin

 Oliver Queen X, Dark Arrow, der Führer, ein Anführer

 Ray Terrill, the Ray, ein Widerstandskämpfer von Erde-1

 Mickey Rory, Leo Snarts Partner

 Harrison Wells X, Wissenschaftler

  Die nächste Generation:

 Jenna West, Tante Jenna, Tochter von Joe West und Cecile Horton, Tante von Nora West-Allen

 Zoe Ramirez, Tochter von Rene Ramirez

 Dawn West-Allen, Tochter von Iris West und Barry Allen aus einer anderen Zeitlinie

 Mia Smoak, Tochter von Oliver Queen und Felicity Smoak

  Die Bewohner von Gotham:

 Kate Kane, Batwoman, die Beschützerin von Gotham, Chefin von Wayne Industries

 Mary Hamilton, Adoptivtochter von Jacob Kane, Kate Kanes Stiefschwester, aufstrebende Ärztin

 Sophie Moore, Mitglied der Crows, Ex-Geliebte von Kate Kane

 Renée Montoya, Polizistin in Gotham

 Luke Fox, Batwomans rechte Hand

  Andere:

 Gertrude, ein T-Rex

 Anna Loring, Rays Verlobte

 Rebecca Merlyn, Malcoms Ehefrau, Mutter von Tommy

 Julius Cäsar, ein Soldat

 Ein Arzt, ein Experte für Brandwunden

 Demsond, von Neron besessen, Geliebter von John Constantine

 Jane Austen, eine Schriftstellerin

 Kamdeva, ein Hindu-Gott, behauptet er zumindest

 Mrs. Jackson, Jefferson Jacksons Mutter

 Mr. Jackson, Jefferson Jacksons Vater, ein Soldat

 Richard Nixon, ein Präsident

 Floyd Lawton, ein Auftragskiller

 Alex Davis, ein politischer Berater, Freund von Thea Queen

 Paul Holt, ein Physiotherapeut, Curtis‘ Ehemann

 Ryan Choi , ein Wissenschaftler

 Ryan Chois Frau, eine junge Mutter

 Gideon (Reverse Flash), eine K.I. aus der Zukunft, von Barry Allen programmiert

 Harrison Wells Erde-1, ein Wissenschaftler

 Barry Allen Erde-90, der Flash von einer anderen Erde

 Nash Wells, Harrison Nash Wells, Pariah, ein Archäologe von einer anderen Erde auf der Suche nach Rache

 Lyla Strad, eine Diebin, Winn Schotts Freundin

 J’onn J’onzzs Frau, eine verstorbene Marsianerin

 Monitor, ein kosmisches Wesen

 Anti-Monitor, ein kosmisches Wesen

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Cinema Legends Between 95-105 + Years Old Still Alive (as of 5/3/2017)

Marguerite Allan - actress (b. 1909)?

Mario Sequi - director, screenwriter (b. 1910 or 1913)?

Ruthie Tompson - animator (b. 1910 or 1912)

Yuaka Sada - actor (b. 1911)

Rene Siminot - dubbing actress (b. 1911)

Urho Harkola - actor (b. 1911)

Mary Carlisle  - actress (b. 1912 or 1914)

Connie Sawyer - actress (b. 1912)

Katsumi Tezuka - actor (b. 1912)

Viola Smith -  musician, actress (b. 1912)

Robert Goodier - actor (b. 1912)?

Don Lusk - animator, director (b. 1913)

Milton Quon - animator (b. 1913)

Julie Gibson - actress (b. 1913)

Pappukutty Bhagavathar - actor, singer (b. 1913)

Gisele Casadesus - actress (b. 1914) † 9/25/2017

Norman Lloyd - actor, producer, director (b. 1914)

Gertrude Jeannette - actress, screenwriter (b. 1914)

Fred Fox - soundtrack musician (b. 1914)

Alfredo Varelli - actor (b. 1914)

Norman Spencer - producer (b. 1914)

Maciej Maciejewski - actor (b. 1914)

Mary Ward - actress (b. 1915)

Patricia Morison - actress (b. 1915)

Herman Wouk - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1915)

Nini Theilade - dancer, actress (b. 1915)

Ramananda Sengupta - cinematographer (b. 1915) † 8/23/2017

Mag Bodard - producer (b. 1916)

Olivia De Havilland - actress (b. 1916)

Kirk Douglas - actor (b. 1916)

Sam Beazley - actor (b. 1916) † 6/12/2017

Eric Bentley - screenwriter, playwright (b. 1916)

Elisa Stella - actress (b. 1916)

Beverly Cleary - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1916)

Jean Erdman - choreographer (b. 1916)

Sumiko Mizukubo - actress (b. 1916)?

Harriet Frank Jr. - screenwriter (b. 1917)

Danielle Darrieux -  actress (b. 1917)

Vera Lynn - singer, actress (b. 1917)

Earl Cameron - actor (b. 1917)

June Foray - actress (b. 1917) † 7/26/2017

Marsha Hunt - actress (b. 1917)

Suzy Delair - actress (b. 1917)

Lee Miller - actor (b. 1917)

Lise Nørgaard - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1917)

Bea Wain - singer (b. 1917) † 8/19/2017

Hilde Zadek - opera singer, actress (b. 1917)

Anne Hegira - actress (b. 1917)

Helen Burns - actress (b. 1917)

Anna Campori - actress (b. 1917)

Fay McKenzie - actress (b. 1918)

Shinobu Hasimoto - screenwriter (b. 1918)

Alice Provensen - animator (b. 1918)

Artur Brauner - producer (b. 1918)

Baby Peggy - actress (b. 1918)

Bob Schiller - screenwriter (b. 1918) † 10/10/2017

Bob Givens - animator (b. 1918)

Murray Westgate - actor (b. 1918)

Ivy Bethune - actress (b. 1918)

Helen Hughes - actress (b. 1918)

Anneliese Uhlig - actress (b. 1918) † 6/17/2017

Dusty Anderson - actress (b. 1918)

Guje Lagerwall - actress (b. 1918)

Eloise Hardt - actress (b. 1918)

Doreen Turner - actress (b. 1918)

Jeanne Manet - actress (b. 1918)

Sid Ramin - composer (b. 1919)

Xavier Atencio - animator (b. 1919) † 9/10/2017

Lester James Peries - director, screenwriter (b. 1919)

Nehemiah Persoff - actor (b. 1919)

Walter Bernstein - screenwriter (b. 1919)

Margot Hielscher - actress (b. 1919) † 8/20/2017

Marge Champion - actress, dancer (b. 1919)

Joachim Tomaschewsky - actor (b. 1919)

Joe Masteroff - playwright (b.1919)

Dorothy Morrison - actress (b. 1919)

Louise Watson - actress (b. 1919)

Caren Marsh - dancer, actress (b. 1919)

Grace Albertson - actress (b. 1919)

Betty Brodel - singer, actress (b. 1919)

Sono Osato - dancer, actress (b. 1919)

Sheila Mercier - actress (b. 1919)

Jack Costanzo - musician, actor (b. 1919 or 1922)

Norma Miller - dancer, actress (b. 1919)

Alfie Scopp - actor (b. 1919)

Helen Shingler - actress (b. 1919)

Doris Merrick - actress (b. 1919)

William O. Harbach - producer, director, actor (b. 1919)

Doug Young - actor (b. 1919)

Julian Zimet - screenwriter (b. 1919)

Michael Anderson - director (b. 1920)

Lewis Gilbert  - director (b. 1920)

Jerry Maren - actor (b. 1920)

Doris Merrick - actress (b. 1920)

Kathryn Adams - actress (b. 1920)

Don Kennedy - actor (b. 1920)

Lassie Lou Ahern - actress (b. 1920)

Noah Keen - actor (b. 1920)

Victor Platt - actor (b. 1920)

Nanette Fabray - actress (b. 1920)

Kate Murtagh - actress (b. 1920)

Franca Valeri - actress (b. 1920)

Jack Edwards - actor (b. 1920)

Anita Kert Ellis - actress, singer (b. 1920)

Norma Barzman - screenwriter (b. 1920)

Sergio Mendizábal - actor (b. 1920)

A. E. Hotchner - novelist, screenwriter, playwright (b. 1920)

Bill Gold - film poster creator (b. 1921)

Carol Channing - actress (b. 1921)

Peter Sallis - actor (b. 1921) † 6/2/2017

Herbert Ellis - actor (b. 1921)

Josip Elic - actor (b. 1921)

Ruth de Souza - actress (b. 1921)

Jack Rader - actor (b. 1921)

Geoffrey Copleston - actor (b. 1921)

Geoffrey Chater - actor (b. 1921)

Bill Butler - cinematographer (b. 1921)

Muriel Pavlow - actress (b. 1921)

Monty Hall - game show host (b. 1921) † 9/30/2017

Harry Landers - actor (b. 1921)

Walter Mirisch - producer (b. 1921)

Tom Felleghy - actor (b. 1921)

Teddi Sherman - screenwriter (b. 1921)

Betty White - actress (b. 1922)

Ray Anthony - musician, actor (b. 1922)

Denis Norden - screenwriter (b. 1922)

Carl Reiner - actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1922)

Marty Allen - actor, comedian (b. 1922)

Doris Day - actress, singer (b. 1922)

Mundell Lowe - composer (b. 1922)

William Phipps - actor (b. 1922)

Margia Dea - actress (b. 1922)

Helen Mowery - actress (b. 1922)

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Updated Book List: March

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett White Fang by Jack London 1984 by George Orwell Diary by Chuck Palahnuk In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw Dracula by Bram Stoker On Killing by Dave Grossman Candide by Voltaire Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Call me Zelda by Erika Roebuck Hemingway’s Girl by Erika Roebuck Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: The Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway Heart-shaped Box by Joe Hill Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis The Reason for God by Timothy Keller The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson The only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Trial by Francis Kafka Necromancer by William Gibson The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury A Confederacy of Dunces by John Toole In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The Stranger by Albert Camus Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Animal Farm by George Orwell Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer Watchman by Allan Moore & Dave Gibbons Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys Never Let Me Down by Kazuo Ishiguro Safekeeping by Jessamyn Hope Book of Night Women by Marion James 11/22/63 by Stephen King Who Asked You? By Terry McMillan The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy Legend by Marie Lu Season of Storms by Susanna Kearsley 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher Dark Places by Gillian Flynn Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn “On Writing” by Stephen King Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot Middlemarch by George Eliot Silas Marner by George Eliot Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Books that changed the World by Andrew Taylor Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Of Mice and Man by John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Forever by Judy Blume My Darling, My Hamburger by Paul Zindel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin The Lottery by Shirley Jackson One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne A Separate Peace by John Knowles One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl I Know Why A Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Deliverance by James Dickey The Good Earth by Pearl Buck A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich by Alice Childress The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway It’s OK if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Tess of D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy The Complete Works of Shakespeare Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Bleak House by Charles Dickens War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Moby Dick by Herman Melville Typee by Herman Melville Watership Down by Richard Adams Ulysses by James Joyce The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Color Purple by Alice Walker Weird History 101 by John Richards Stephens The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Persuasion by Jane Austen Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis The Horse and his Boy by C. S. Lewis Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis This Country of Ours by H. E. Marshall An Abundance of Katherines by John Green Emma by Jane Austen The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Beloved by Toni Morrision Orlando by Virginia Woolf Tracks by Louise Erdich Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern White Teeth by Zadie Smith Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf The Awakening by Kate Chopin Three Great Plays by Eugene O’Neill Our Town by Thorton Wilder A Raw Youth by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis Stepping Heavenward by E. Prentiss Lively Art of Writing by Lucille Vaughn Payne Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan Works of Josephus Volume III by Josephus The Maze Runner by James Dashner The Scorch Trials by James Dashner The Death Cure by James Dashner Angels and Demons by Dan Brown The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde by Peter Ackroyd Cry, My Beloved Country by Alan Paton Goliath by Scott Westerfeld The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson The Girl who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson Wicked by Gregory Maguire Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor Looking for Alaska by John Green Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche The Jungle by Upton Sinclair King Arthur and the Knight of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin Anthem by Ayn Rand Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild On War by Carl Von Clausewitz August: Osage County by Tracy Letts Only a Theory by Kenneth Miller My Ten Years in a Quandry by Robert Benchly One Day by David Nicholls The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket The End by Lemony Snicket Selected Writings by Gertrude Stein The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Gentlemen Prefer Blondes but Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Life of Pi by Yann Martel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Three More Plays by George O’Neill Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery The Once and Future King by T. H. White Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Ginger Man by J. P. Donleavy Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Poetry by Emily Dickenson The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan The Sea of Monster by Rick Riordan The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan The Metamorphoses by Ovid The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Revenant by Michael Punke Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Grendel by John Gardner The Fault In Our Stars by John Green I AM THE MESSENGER by Markus Zusak The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Eragon by Christopher Paolini Eldest by Christopher Paolini Inheritance by Christopher Paolini Brsinger by Christopher Paolini Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forestor Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Pocket Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer On Writing by Charles Bukowski Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith Crazy Love by Francis Chan The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Penny Dreadfuls by Stefan Dziemianowics Classic Works by F. Scott Fitgerald John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes by Stefan Dziemianowics Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie Mcdonald The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss Divergent by Veronica Roth A History of Greece by J. B. Bury Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Inkspell by Cornelia Funke Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The Jungle book by Rudyard Kipling A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne The Adventure of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling All the Lights We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl by Anonymous Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams World, Chase Me Down by Andrew Hilleman The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee The Copernican Revolution by Thomas S. Kuhn The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi  Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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Every Baby Name We Could Possibly Think Of

Naming your baby is a big decision, and with endless options, it can also be a difficult one. Whether you're going the traditional route or want something more unique (if so, read this first!) it's helpful to have a little, or a lot, of inspiration. Ahead, you'll find nearly every baby name we could think of (close to 1,000!). These aren't just random names we found in a book or concocted ourselves - they're almost all monikers we've heard being used, or we actually know someone who goes by the name. If we missed any, tell us in the comments! A Aaliyah Aaron Abbie Abel Abigail Abraham Adalyn Adam Addilyn Addison Adelaide Adeline Adley Adora Agatha Aiden Alan Albert Aleph Alexander Alexis Ali Alma Alton Ama Amanda Amaryllis Amber Ameila Amélie Amy Anders Anderson Andrea Andrew Angie Angela Angelica Anika Anna Annalise Anne Annie Ansel Apple April Arata Archie Aria Ariane Ariel Arlee Arlo Arman Arthur Arun Arwen Arya Asha Asher Aspen Atticus Aton Aubrey Audrey August Augustus Aurora Ava Avery Axel Aziz B Bailey Barack Barbara Barney Barry Beatrice Beau Beckett Beckham Becky Ben Benedict Benjamin Bennett Bentley Bernadette Beth Bette Betty Beverly Bexley Bianca Bill Billie Bingham Bishop Bitsie Blake Blue Bobby Bodhi Bonnie Bowie Brady Braelynn Brandon Brayden Brecken Bree Brent Brenton Brett Brian Briana Briar Bridgette Brienne Brig Brigham Brinley Brio Britta Brock Brody Bronwyn Brooklyn Bruno Bryan Byron C Caden Caitlin Caity Cale Caleb Calla Calvin Camari Cameron Camilla Carena Carina Carl Carmel Carol Carrey Carter Cary Casey Caspian Cat Catherine Celine Chandler Chanel Channing Charise Charlene Charles Charlotte Chase Cher Cheri Cheriann Cheryl Chevy Chip Chloe Chris Chrissy Christian Christopher Claire Clara Clark Clary Claudia Clementine Clifford Clint Clinton Clyde Colin Collins Condoleezza Connor Conrad Constance Coolidge Cooper Cora Corban Courtney Cruz Related: 100 of the Most Beautiful Baby Names D Daisy Dale Dallas Damon Dane Danica Daniel Danielle Daphne Darby Darlene Darrel Daryl Dashiell Dave David Davina Davis Davon Dawn Dean Deanna Declan Dekel Delaney Delilah Delta Dennis Denzel Desmond Dev Devon Dexter Diane Dinah Dixie Dixon Dolores Dominique Donald Doris Dorothea Dorothy Dot Duke Duncan Dwight Dylan E Easton Ed Eden Edith Edmund Edward Effie Eleanor Elena Eli Eliana Elijah Elise Elizabeth Ella Elle Ellen Ellerie Ellie Elliott Ellis Elodie Eloise Elora Elroy Elsa Elsie Embry Emerson Emily Emma Emmett Eric Erica Esme Esmeralda Esther Ethan Ethel Eugene Evan Eve Evelyn Everett Evie Ewan Ezra F Farah Fay Felix Ferris Finn Fiona Fisher Fitz Fleur Flint Florence Floyd Flynn Ford Forrest Foster Fox Frances Frank Franklin Frederick G Gabe Gabriel Gaige Gail Gant Garrett Garth Gavin Gem Gemma Gene Genesis Gertrude George Gianna Gibson Gigi Gina Ginger Gladys Glenn Gloria Gordon Grace Grady Graham Grant Grayson Greer Gregory Griffin Grover Gus Gwen Gwyneth H Hadlee Hailey Hal Halle Hank Hannah Harding Harlow Harlyn Harold Harper Harriet Harrison Harry Hart Hartley Harvey Haven Hawk Hawthorne Hayden Hayes Hays Hazel Hector Heath Heather Helen Henley Henry Hillary Honor Holden Holly Holt Hope Hubert Hudson Hugo Humphrey Hunter Hurley Hutton Related: Based Off Last Year's Trends, These 30 Names Will Be Among the Most Popular of 2017 I Ian Ida Idris Ike Imanuel Imogen India Indy Ingrid Inizio Ireland Iris Irvin Isa Isaac Isabella Isabelle Isaiah Isla Israel Ivana Ivory J Jack Jackie Jackson Jacob Jacqueline Jaden Jaelyn Jagger Jake James Jameson Jamie Jane January Jason Jasper Jaun Jax Jaxon Jayce Jayden Jeannette Jed Jeff Jefferson Jenna Jess Jessica Jessie Jill Jillian Joan Joanna Joaquin Joe John Jones Jordan Joseph Josephine Josh Joshua Joslyn Joss Joy Joyce Judith Judy Jules Julia Julian Julie Juliet Julius June Juno Justin K Kai Kaia Kale Kalinda Kane Karah Katharine Kathryn Kate Kay Kaya Kaylee Keanu Keegan Keira Keith Kellan Kelly Kelsey Kendall Kennedy Kevin Khloe Kiah Kiele Kiera Kim Kima Kimberly Kingston Kinsley Kirk Kit Kitty Knox Krista Kristen Kurtis Kyle Kylie L Laith Lake Lana Landon Lane Larissa Larkin Laszlo Laura Lauren Lawrence Layla Leah Lee Leia Leighton Leilani Lena Lennon Leo Leonard Leslie Levi Lewis Leyona Lia Liam Liana Lida Lilith Lillian Lily Lincoln Lindsay Lionel Lisa Lisette Liz Logan Lois Lola London Loretta Lorraine Louella Louise Lucas Lucian Lucille Lucy Luke Luna Lux Lyle Lyndon Lynne Related: 100 Unusual Boy Names M Mabel Mabrey Mac Macallan Mackenzie Macy Madeleine Madelyn Madison Mae Maeby Maggie Mahershala Maia Makena Malcolm Maleeya Malia Mamie Mandy Marabelle Marcus Maren Margaret Margot Mari Maria Mariah Mariam Marilyn Marin Marion Marisole Marisse Marjorie Mark Marlene Marlon Marlowe Martha Martin Mary Mason Matilda Matthew Maui Mavis Maximus Maxson May Maya McKinley Megan Melissa Meredith Merritt Meryl Meyer Mia Michael Michelle Mika Mike Mila Mildred Miles Millie Milo Moana Molly Monica Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moses Muhammad Murray Myles N Nahall Nahla Nancy Nanette Naomie Nasima Natalie Nate Nathan Naveen Naya Neil Neisa Neo Neoma Newt Newton Niall Nicholas Nick Nico Nicole Nicolette Nigel Nile Nimah Nixon Noah Noel Nolan Nora Norma Norman North Nova O Obama Octavia Olly Olive Oliver Olivia Omar Opal Ophelia Ordell Oriana Orion Orlando Orson Orville Oscar Otis Otto Owen P Paige Paislee Paloma Pandora Paris Parker Patrick Patsy Paul Payton Pearl Peggy Penelope Penn Penny Perry Pete Peyton Phillip Phoebe Phoenix Phyllis Pierce Piper Polly Poppy Porter Posey Preston Primrose Priya Prudence Priscilla Q Quaid Quincy Quentin Quinn Quinten R Rachel Radley Rae Ralph Ramsey Rayna Rayne Reagan Rebecca Reese Reeve Reid Reign Remi Renly Rex Rhea Rhett Rhys Richard Rick Riley Ripley River Rivers Rob Robert Robin Rome Romy Ronald Ronin Rooney Roosevelt Rory Rosalind Rosalynn Rosamund Rose Rosemary Ross Rowan Roy Royce Ruby Rue Ruth Rutherford Ryan Ryder Related: 100 Unique Yet Beautiful Girls' Names S Sacha Sage Sahara Saint Sam Samuel Sandra Sandy Sansa Sarah Saul Savannah Sawyer Scarlett Schuyler Scout Sean Sebastian Selena Sena Seymour Shane Shannon Shea Shelly Sherlock Sherry Shiloh Shirley Sia Sidney Sienna Simon Skyler Sloan Sofia Solo Sonia Sophia Sophie Spencer Stacy Stanley Stella Stephanie Sterling Stetson Stuart Sue Sullivan Summer Suri Susan Sylvia T Tabitha Tad Tamera Tamsyn Tanner Tara Tate Taylor Teagan Teddy Terrance Thea Thelma Theordore Theresa Thomas Tim Tina Tinley Toby Todd Tom Tony Travis Travon Trent Trey Tricia Trinity Tripp Tristan Troy Truman Turner Tyler Tyson V Valentina Valentine Vance Vaughan Vaughn Vera Vern Victor Victoria Viggo Vince Vincent Viola Violet Virgil Vivian W Waldo Walker Wallis Walter Warren Watson Waverly Wells Wes Wesley Westley Whitney Will Willa William Willow Wilson Winter Wolfe Wren Wyatt X Xander Xavier Xeno Y Yanet Yani Yigal York Yuma Yvette Z Zachary Zahir Zander Zane Zaylee Zayn Zion Zoe Zola Zooey Zora Zuma Zuri Related: These Are the Most Popular Baby Names of 2016 http://bit.ly/2kR9iwY

[todayclassical]

February 17 in Music History

1444 Birth of Dutch organist Rudolph Agricola aka Roelof Huysman.

1652 Death of Italian priest, singer, and composer Gregorio Allegri.

1653 Birth of Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli in Fusignano near Milan. 

1654 Death of composer Michael Lohr, at age 62.

1667 Birth of German composer Georg Bronner. 

1675 Birth of German composer Johann Melchior Conradi.

1696 Birth of composer Baron Ernst Gottlieb.

1697 Birth of French composer Louis-Maurice de La Pierre.

1728 FP of G. F. Handel's opera Siroe, re di Persia 'Cyrus, King of Persia' at the King's Theater in the Haymarket, in London. 

1732 Death of French organist and composer Louis Marchand.

1747 Birth of Spanish composer Narciso Casanovas.

1751 Birth of tenor and composer Domenico Mombelli in Villanova.  

1754 Birth of Czech composer Jan Jachym Kopriva. 

1792 FP of F. J. Haydn's Symphony No. 93. Was conducted by Haydn at the Hanover-Square Concert Rooms in London.

1796 Birth of Italian composer Giovanni Pacini in Catania.

1807 FP of Etienne Mehul's opera Joseph in Paris.

1813 Birth of baritone Giovanni Belletti in Sarzana.  

1815 Death of composer Franz Gotz, at age 59.

1816 Birth of composer Friedrich Wilhelm Markkula.

1820 Birth of French composer Henri Vieuxtemps, in Verviers, Belgium. 

1831 Birth of composer Francisco Salvador Daniel.

1841 Death of Italian composer and guitarist Ferdinando Carulli.

1847 Birth of soprano Mathilde Mallinger in Agram.  

1850 Birth of German composer Anton Urspruch in Frankfurt Germany. 

1855 Birth of baritone Antonio Magini-Coletti in Ancona.  

1855 FP of Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb. Liszt was soloist with Hector Berlioz conducting in Weimar.

1856 Death of English composer and tenor John Braham, in London. 

1858 Birth of conductor and composer Ernest Ford.

1859 FP of Verdi opera Un Ballo in Maschera, based on the murder of Gustavus, King of Sweden, at the Teatro Apollo in Rome.

1860 Birth of baritone Max Dawison in Schwedt.  

1862 Birth of English composer Edward German.

1862 Death of mezzo-soprano Ann Maria Tree.

1870 Birth of soprano Riza Eibenschutz in Budapest.

1882 Birth of German composer Kurt Schindler.

1883 Death of French guitarist and composer Napoleon Coste, at age 76. 

1884 Birth of German-American conductor Hans Lange. 

1887 Birth of Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja in Oulu. 

1887 Birth of bass-baritone Wilhelm Rode in Hanover.  

1889 Birth of English composer and conductor Geoffrey Toye in Winchester.

1889 FP of Cesar Franck's d minor symphony, in Paris.

1896 Birth of mezzo-soprano Gertrud Wettergren in Esloev, Sweden. 

1900 Birth of soprano Oxana Petrusenko in Kharkiv.  

1901 FP of Mahler's Das Klagende Lied, in Vienna.

1901 Death of American composer and pianist Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin.

1902 Birth of soprano Leila Ben Sedira in Algeria.

1903 Death of Welsh composer Joseph Parry, at age 61 in Penarth, England. 

1904 FP of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, at La Scala in Milan. 

1906 Birth of composer and violinist Ramon Tapales.

1909 Birth of Australian operatic soprano Marjorie Lawrence.

1910 Birth of composer Alfred Mendelsohn. 

1913 Birth of Polish-French conductor and composer Rene Leibowitz.

1914 FP of Ernst von Dohnányi's Variations on a Nursery Song for piano and orchestra. The composer was soloist in Berlin.

1915 Birth of composer Homer Keller.

1920 Birth of American composer Paul Felter in Philadelphia, PA.1920 Death of baritone Karel Kral. 

1924 Death of Finnish composer Oskar Merikanto at age 55 in Hausjärvi-Oiti.

1925 Death of soprano Alwina Valleria. 

1926 Birth of American pianist and composer Lee Hoiby in Madison, WI.

1926 Birth of Austrian Avant-garde composer Friedrich Cerha in Vienna.

1927 FP of Deems Taylor's opera The King's Henchmen at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.

1929 Birth of composer Eugene V. Hancock.

1930 Death of mezzo-soprano Louise Kirkby-Lunn. 

1933 Death of Dutch composer and conductor Henri Viotta.

1943 FP of Aaron Copland's Music for Movies. Town Hall Forum concert in NYC.

1944 Birth of Dutch cellist Anner Bylsma.

1944 Birth of Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.

1944 Birth of soprano Ellen Shade in New York City. 

1947 FP of Aaron Copland's orchestral Danzón Cubano. Baltimore Symphony.

1948 FP of David Diamond's Violin Sonata No. 1. Joseph Szigeti, violin and Josef Lhevinne, piano at Carnegie Hall in NYC.

1949 Birth of English composer Fred Frith in Heathfield.

1950 Death of soprano Anna Bartels. 

1951 Death of composer Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan.

1952 FP of H. Henze's opera Boulevard Solitude.

1955 Death of Hungarian-American musicologist Otto J. Gombosi, at age 52.

1959 Birth of American composer Robert Scott Thompson in CA.

1961 FP of Elie Siegmeister's Flute Concerto, in Oklahoma City, OK.

1962 Death of conductor Bruno Walter at age 85 in Beverly Hills, CA. 

1970 Death of American composer and film conductor Alfred Newman.

1972 Death of Russian composer Gavril Nikolayevich Popov.

1973 Birth of American composer Michelle McQuade Dewhirst.

1974 Death of mezzo-soprano Conchita Velasquez. 

1977 FP of Elliott Carter's A Symphony of Three Orchestra. New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez conducting.

1982 FP of George Perle's Ballade for piano. Richard Goode, piano at Alice Tully Hall in NYC.

1983 Death of bass Tancredi Pasero.

1991 Death of soprano Gitta Alpar. 

1995 Death of soprano Uta Graf. 

1999 Death of soprano Sabine Hass.

[londontheatre]

Casting is today announced for Fanny & Alexander at The Old Vic. Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece Fanny and Alexander is adapted for the stage by BAFTA award-winning writer Stephen Beresford and directed by Old Vic Associate Director Max Webster, opening on 1 March 2018 with previews from 21 February 2018. The cast includes Penelope Wilton, Thomas Arnold, Lolita Chakrabarti, Kevin Doyle, Karina Fernandez, Annie Firbank, Matt Gavan, Tim Lewis, Gary MacKay, Gloria Obianyo, Vivian Oparah, Michael Pennington, Hannah James Scott, Jonathan Slinger, Catherine Walker and Sargon Yelda.

‘There should be no shame in us taking pleasure in our little lives.’ Amongst the gilded romance and glamour of 1900s Sweden, siblings Fanny and Alexander’s world is turned upside down when their widowed mother remarries the iron-willed local bishop. As creative freedom and rigid orthodoxy clash, a war ensues between imagination and austerity in this magical study of childhood, family and love.

Penelope Wilton plays Mrs. Helena Ekdahl. Her extensive theatre credits include Taken at Midnight (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Chichester Festival Theatre) for which she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2015, Delicate Balance, Heartbreak House, The Deep Blue Sea (Almeida), The Family Reunion, The Chalk Garden – winning her the London Evening Standard Award Best Actress in 2008, John Gabriel Borkman, Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse), The House of Bernarda Alba, Tess, Piano, The Secret Rapture, Major Barbara, Much Ado About Nothing, Man and Superman, Betrayal, The Philanderer, Sisterly Feelings, Landscape (National Theatre), Hamlet, Tishoo (Wyndham’s Theatre) and Women Beware Women (RSC Swan Theatre). Television includes Brief Encounters, Downton Abbey, Miss Marple: They do it with Mirrors, South Riding, Doctor Who, The Passion, Five Days, The Whistle-Blower, Wives and Daughters, Half Broken Things, Celebration, Ever Decreasing Circles. Film work includes Guernsey, Zoo, The BFG, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Belle, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The History Boys, Pride and Prejudice and Shaun of the Dead.

Thomas Arnold plays Carl Ekdahl/Mr. Landhal. His theatre credits include Oslo, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Cyrano De Bergerac, Mourning Becomes Electra, Three Sisters and The Stoppard Trilogy (National Theatre), The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court), Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (2015 – The Old Vic), Hamlet, Orlando (Manchester Royal Exchange), A Door Must be Open or Shut (King’s Head Theatre), Outlying Islands (Bath Theatre Royal), and Poor Mrs Pepys (New Victoria Theatre). Television credits include Broken, The Missing, War and Peace, Call the Midwife, Wolf Hall, Director, Bert & Dickie, Midsomer Murders, This is England, Broadside, Demons, Miss Marple – Towards Zero, The Last Detective and Abolition. His film credits include The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, Far from the Madding Crowd, Posh, The Fifth Estate, Thor 2, Kon Tiki, One Day, Made In Dagenham, Robin Hood, Me and Orson Welles, The Duchess, The Golden Compass and Cromwell and Fairfax.

Lolita Chakrabarti plays Alma Ekdahl/Helena Vergérus. Theatre credits include Gertrude in Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company/RADA), Last Seen (Almeida), which Lolita also wrote, Free Outgoing (Royal Court/Edinburgh Festival), John Gabriel Borkman (Donmar), The Great Game: Afghanistan (Tricycle Theatre), The Waiting Room and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Theatre). Television credits include Delicious, Born to Kill, Beowulf, My Mad Fat Diary, Jekyll and Hyde, The Casual Vacancy and The Smoke. Writing credits include Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre 2012 and 2014, St Ann’s Warehouse New York 2014, The Garrick Theatre 2016). Red Velvet was nominated for nine awards. Lolita won the Charles Wintour Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2012, the Critics Circle Most Promising Playwright Award 2012 and the AWA Award for Arts and Culture in 2013.

Kevin Doyle plays Bishop Edvard Vergérus. Theatre includes: NSFW, Spur Of The Moment (Royal Court), One For The Road/Victoria Station (Young Vic), The White Guard, Mutabilitie (National Theatre), For King And Country (Touring Partnership),Three In The Back, Two In Head, The Mob, A Hole In The Top Of The World (Orange Tree Theatre), Comedy Of Errors (Southampton), Henry V, Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Artistes and Admirers, Romeo and Juliet, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Henry IV Parts I & II, Kissing The Pope, Twelfth Night, The Plantagenets, The Plain Dealer (all For The RSC), The Crucible (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (Queen’s Theatre and tour), Therese Racquin (Chichester Minerva Theatre),Othello (Bristol Old Vic), The Admirable Crichton, Great Expectations and Cymbeline (Royal Exchange).

Television includes Happy Valley, Reg, Downton Abbey, A.D – Beyond the Bible, The Crimson Field, Snodgrass, Open Doors, The Accused, New Tricks, Room at the Top, Scott & Bailey, Law and Order, Vexed, Survivors, Five Days, Paradox, Silent Witness, The Tudors, Till We Die, George Gently, Sleep With Me, Heartbeat, Belle De Jour, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Dalziel and Pascoe, Casualty, The Royal, New Street Law, The Brief, Brief Encounters, Afterlife, Big Dippers, The Rotters Club, Blackpool, Midsomer Murders, Family Business, Murphy’s Law, Silent Witness, The Lakes, Holby City, At Home With The Braithwaites and Badger. Film includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Social Call, Good and The Libertine.

Karina Fernandez plays Lydia Ekdahl/Justina. Her theatre credits include Mare Rider (Arcola Theatre), There is a War, Edgar and Annabel (National Theatre), Bites (The Bush Theatre), Blue Hart (Royal Court), Cahoot’s Macbeth (King’s Head Theatre), Crocodile Seeking Refuge (Lyric Hammersmith), Dealing with Claire (Union Theatre), Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic), Trips (Birmingham Rep) and Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons (Soho Theatre). Television credits include Holby City, Quick Cuts, A Touch of Cloth II, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, The Blind Man of Seville, My So Called Life Sentence, Twenty Twelve, My Family, Happy Birthday Shakespeare, Married. Single Other and The Forsythe Saga. Her film credits include Sense of an Ending, Pride, Untitled 13, Now is Good, Another Year, Happy Go Lucky, Gabriel and The Return and Daphne.

Annie Firbank plays Vega/Blenda Vergérus. Her theatre credits include Richard III (Arcola/Madrid), Oresteia, Macbeth (Almeida Theatre), Who Do We Think We Are?, Roundelay (Southwark Playhouse/Visible Ensemble), The Crucible (The Old Vic), To Kill a Mockingbird, Three Sisters, An Ideal Husband, Separate Tables, Habitat (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Golden Dragon, Orpheus, The Belle Vue, Ion, Celestina (ATC), Billy Liar, A Working Woman, Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse), An Argument About Sex (Tramway/Traverse Theatre), Only the Lonely, Death of a Salesman (Birmingham Rep), Becket (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Maps of Desire (Wonderful Beast), The Hollow Crown, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors (RSC), Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl), Hedda Gabler (ETT/Donmar Warehouse), The Invisible Woman (Gate Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet (Acter-USA), Mary Stuart (BAC), A Handful of Dust (Shared Experience), High Society (Victoria Palace), The Passion, Julius Caesar (National Theatre), Twelfth Night, Richard III, and Anthony and Cleopatra (Stratford, Ontario). Television includes New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, East Enders, Elizabeth I, Doctors, Kavanagh QC, Heartbeat, Heart of the Country, Growing Rich, Poirot, Mother Love, Hotel du Lac, Flesh and Blood, Lillie, The Nearly Man, Crown Court and Persuasion. Film credits include Anna and the King, Strapless, A Passage to India, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sunday Bloody Sunday, A Severed Head, Accident, The Servant and Carry on Nurse.

Matt Gavan plays Michael Bergman/Aron Retzinsky. His recent theatre credits include King Lear (The Old Vic). His film credits include Murder on the Orient Express and Goodbye Christopher Robin.

Tim Lewis is in the Ensemble. Theatre includes The Elephantom, War Horse (National Theatre/West End), The Man of Mode (National Theatre) The Edge (UK tour), The Hudsucker Proxy (Nuffield Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse), At The End Of Everything Else, Something Very Far Away (Unicorn Theatre) The Guinea Pig Club, (York Theatre Royal), The Railway Children (Waterloo Station Theatre), and Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Rep/UK tour). TV credits include Mr Selfridge, Five Daughters, and Coming Up: The King. Film includes A Night in Hatton Garden, A Congregation of Ghosts and In the Dark Half.

Gary Mackay is in the Ensemble. His theatre credits include Farm Boy (Mercury Theatre), ‘Art’ (The Old Vic), Run for Your Wife (Vienna English Theatre), Let The Right One In (NTS/West End/New York), The 39 Steps (UK tour), The Madness of George III (West End/UK tour), The Signal Man (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Little Otik (NTS/UK tour), When Five Years Pass, The Highway Crossing (Arcola Theatre), Lark Rise to Candleford (Finborough Theatre) and Julius Caesar (Barbican Theatre). His television credits include Derren Brown’s – Twisted Tales, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Lip Service, Hollyoaks, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Half Moon Investigations and Francis. His film credits include E=Motion, He Who Dares 2, The Magic Flute, The Devil’s Chair and Broken.

Gloria Obianyo plays Petra Ekdahl/Pauline/Ismael Retzinsky. Her theatre credits include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse), The Wild Party (St James’s Theatre), The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and The Happy Warrior (Bromley Churchill Theatre). Her television and film credits include Good Omens and High Life.

Vivian Oparah plays Maj. Her theatre credits include An Octoroon (Orange Tree Theatre). Her television credits include Class, and she is set to appear in The Rebel and film Teen Spirit.

Michael Pennington plays Isak Jacobi/Death. His theatre credits include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman he Once Loved (Donmar Warehouse), King Lear (UK tour), She Stoops to Conquer (Theatre Royal Bath), A Winter’s Tale (Garrick Theatre), Richard II (RSC), Dance of Death (Gate Theatre), Judgement Day (The Print Room), Anthony and Cleopatra, The Syndicate, The Master Builder, Collaboration and Taking Sides (Chichester Festival Theatre). Michael’s television credits include Endeavour, Father Brown, Silent Witness, Holby City, The Tudors, Lewis, Waking the Dead and The Bill. His film credits include The Iron Lady and Return of the Jedi.

Hannah James-Scott is in the Ensemble. Her theatre credits include Powerplay (Hampton Court), Translations (Sheffield Crucible/Rose Theatre) and LoveBites (Southwark Playhouse). Her film credits include Crumble and Empty.

Jonathan Slinger plays Gustav Adolf Ekdahl. His theatre credits include Trouble in Mind (Print Room), Plastic (Theatre Royal, Bath), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Urinetown (St. James Theatre/Apollo Shaftesbury), Hamlet, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Henry VI parts 1, 2 & 3, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III, The Homecoming, Macbeth (RSC), The Gods Weep (RSC/Hampstead Theatre), Power, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Coast of Utopia (National Theatre). Recent television credits include Kiri, Nelson in his Own Words, Foyle’s War, To The Ends of the Earth, Vexed and Paradox. His film credits include The Taking, Harmony, A Knight’s Tale, Forgive and Forget and The Last September.

Catherine Walker plays Emilie Ekdahl. Her theatre credits include Hedda Gabler (Abbey Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Uncle Vanya (Gate Theatre), Play (Barbican/Gate Theatre), The House (Abbey Theatre), Terminus (Abbey Theatre/Young Vic), Blackwater Angel (Finborough Theatre), What Happened Bridgie Cleary (Peacock Theatre), John Bull’s Other Island (Tricycle Theatre), Wild Orchids (Chichester Festival Theatre), Stairs to the Roof (Minerva Theatre), Richard II, Henry V, A Month in the Country, Troilus & Cressida (RSC) and Sive (Palace Theatre). Her television credits include Versailles II/III, Acceptable Risk, Rebellion, Critical, Strike Back, The Clinic, Life of Crime, The Silence, Lewis, Bittersweet, Northanger Abbey, Waking the Dead, Animals, Holby City, Passengers On Board and Sweeney Todd. Her film credits include Delinquent Season, Cellar Door, We Ourselves, Dark Song, Patrick’s Day, Debris, Dark Touch, Easier Ways to Make A Living, Leap Year, Cromwell, Losing Her, Perfect Day: The Funeral, Conspiracy of Silence and The Favourite.

Sargon Yelda plays Oscar Ekdahl. His theatre credits include King Lear (The Old Vic), Forget Me Not (Bush Theatre), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Dara, Emperor and Galilean, Mother Courage and her Children, Stovepipe (National Theatre), The Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court), Incognito (Bush Theatre), Moby Dick, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Arcola Theatre), Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (RSC) and When the Rain Stops Falling (Almeida Theatre). His television credits include The Strike Series: The Silkwork and Cuckoo’s Calling, Innocent, Zen, Compulsion, Midnight Man and Saddam’s Tribe. His film credits include Spectre, Dead Cat and Close.

The role of Fanny will be played by Zaris Angel Hator, Amy Jayne Leigh, Molly Shenker and Katie Simons, and the role of Alexander will be played by Guillermo Bedward, Kit Connor, Jack Falk and Misha Handley, who will alternate performances.

Adaptation Stephen Beresford Director Max Webster Set Designer Tom Pye Costume Designer Laura Hopkins Composer Alex Baranowski Lighting Designer Mark Henderson Sound Designer Tom Gibbons Casting Jessica Ronane CDG Director of Movement Toby Sedgwick Illusion Ben Hart Baylis Assistant Director Tatty Hennessey

FANNY & ALEXANDER Based on ‘Fanny and Alexander’ written and directed by Ingmar Bergman Adapted by Stephen Beresford Directed by Max Webster Wed 21 Feb–Sat 14 Apr 2018

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