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The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

By George Bernard Shaw

Presented by The Online Stage

Making his way to a tryst with his “dark lady” near the royal palace the young playwright William Shakespeare encounters a mysterious woman in a cloak. Mistaking her for his lady friend, he accosts her in a familiar fashion, only to discover, to his dismay, that she is in fact the queen. He overcomes his initial discomfort, and takes advantage of the situation to make a petition for royal support to establish a national theatre.

Shaw’s play had two purposes:

• To deflate the reputation of Shakespeare for whom Shaw felt a lifelong rivalry;

• To provide support for a campaign to establish a national theatre in 1916, the tercentenary of Shakespeare’s death.

As with many of his plays, Shaw wrote a lengthy preface, which has been included in this recording.

Preface narrated by Noel Badrian

Cast

The Man (William Shakespeare) - Peter Tucker

The lady/Queen Elizabeth - Danielle Cohen

The Dark Lady - Erin Louttit

The Beefeater/Warder - Denis Daly

Stage directions – Noel Badrian

The Online Stage is a collective of narrators and actors who have come together to create premium quality productions of dramatic works in audio format. For more information or to explore the catalogue please visit onlinestage.org.

The Song of Solomon

Presented by Voices of Today

This book of the King James Version has been read allegorically as a depiction of the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Cast

The Shulamite – Erin Louttit

The Beloved – Peter Tucker

The Daughters of Jerusalem – Linda Barrans

Audio edited by Erin Louttit

This recording may be freely distributed and re-used as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author.

For further information about Voices of Today, or to explore its catalogue please visit www.voicesoftoday.org.

The Song of Solomon

Presented by Voices of Today

This book of the King James Version has been read allegorically as a depiction of the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Cast

The Shulamite – Erin Louttit

The Beloved – Peter Tucker

The Daughters of Jerusalem – Linda Barrans

Audio edited by Erin Louttit

This recording may be freely distributed and re-used as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author.

For further information about Voices of Today, or to explore its catalogue please visit www.voicesoftoday.org.

The Song of Solomon

Presented by Voices of Today

This book of the King James Version has been read allegorically as a depiction of the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Cast

The Shulamite – Erin Louttit

The Beloved – Peter Tucker

The Daughters of Jerusalem – Linda Barrans

Audio edited by Erin Louttit

This recording may be freely distributed and re-used as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author.

For further information about Voices of Today, or to explore its catalogue please visit www.voicesoftoday.org.

The Song of Solomon

Presented by Voices of Today

This book of the King James Version has been read allegorically as a depiction of the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Cast

The Shulamite – Erin Louttit

The Beloved – Peter Tucker

The Daughters of Jerusalem – Linda Barrans

Audio edited by Erin Louttit

This recording may be freely distributed and re-used as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author.

For further information about Voices of Today, or to explore its catalogue please visit www.voicesoftoday.org.

The Song of Solomon

Presented by Voices of Today

This book of the King James Version has been read allegorically as a depiction of the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Cast

The Shulamite – Erin Louttit

The Beloved – Peter Tucker

The Daughters of Jerusalem – Linda Barrans

Audio edited by Erin Louttit

This recording may be freely distributed and re-used as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author.

For further information about Voices of Today, or to explore its catalogue please visit www.voicesoftoday.org.

The Song of Solomon

Presented by Voices of Today

This book of the King James Version has been read allegorically as a depiction of the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Cast

The Shulamite – Erin Louttit

The Beloved – Peter Tucker

The Daughters of Jerusalem – Linda Barrans

Audio edited by Erin Louttit

This recording may be freely distributed and re-used as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author.

For further information about Voices of Today, or to explore its catalogue please visit www.voicesoftoday.org.

The Song of Solomon

Presented by Voices of Today

This book of the King James Version has been read allegorically as a depiction of the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Cast

The Shulamite – Erin Louttit

The Beloved – Peter Tucker

The Daughters of Jerusalem – Linda Barrans

Audio edited by Erin Louttit

This recording may be freely distributed and re-used as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author.

For further information about Voices of Today, or to explore its catalogue please visit www.voicesoftoday.org.

The Song of Solomon

Presented by Voices of Today

This book of the King James Version has been read allegorically as a depiction of the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Cast

The Shulamite – Erin Louttit

The Beloved – Peter Tucker

The Daughters of Jerusalem – Linda Barrans

Audio edited by Erin Louttit

This recording may be freely distributed and re-used as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author.

For further information about Voices of Today, or to explore its catalogue please visit www.voicesoftoday.org.

The complete recording can be purchased at Audible.com:

https://tinyurl.com/ydg8nsal

Endymion

A poetic romance

by John Keats

Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed between April and November 1817. It was published in April 1818, and the critical reception was almost universally hostile. The plot is built around the ancient Greek legend of Endymion, the young shepherd whose beauty was such that the goddess of the Moon entreated Zeus to cast him into a permanent sleep so that she could gaze on him without interruption. Keats expands this story into an epistle on beauty and love, and weaves into it elements from several other Greek legends.

Due to the complexities of the plot, many audiences have found the poem as a whole rather inaccessible, and have preferred to focus on the occasional gems of poetic commentary for which it has become famous. In his landmark biography of Keats, Sidney Colvin reviews both the inherent problems and the importance of Endymion thus: "It is not with simple matters of personification, of the putting of initial capitals to abstract qualities, that we have to deal, nor yet with any obvious and deliberately thought-out allegory, still less is it with one purposely made riddling and obscure, it is with a vital, subtly involved and passionately tentative spiritual parable, the parable of the experiences of the poetic soul in man seeking communion with the spirit of essential Beauty in the world, invented and related, in the still uncertain dawn of his powers, by one of the finest natural-born and intuitively gifted poets who ever lived. This is a thing which stands almost alone in literature, and however imperfectly executed, is worth any closeness and continuity of attention we can give it."

Cast

Narrator – Eva Davis

Endymion – Mark Crowle-Groves

Priest – Peter Tucker

Alpheus – Peter Tucker

Elephant – Peter Tucker

Peona – Amanda Friday

Nymph – Amanda Friday

Cynthia – Elizabeth Klett

Glaucus – John Burlinson

Adonis – Tomas Peter

Arethusa – Cate Barratt

Mystery Woman – Elizabeth Klett

Venus – P.J. Morgan

Circe – Erin Louttit

Chorus – Leanne Yau

Voices – Leanne Yau

Seasons and Hours – Leanne Yau

Text prepared by Erin Louttit.

Audio edited by Denis Daly.