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Meet Alex, a photographer on a holiday with his family in the south of France. Meet Abe, a music producer with a baby on the way. Two men - both fathers, husbands, and sons - take us on a journey you will never forget. The finest actors of their generation, Academy Award® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Sunday in the Park with George) and Tony Award nominee Tom Sturridge (1984), had audiences roaring to their feet during the sold-out Broadway engagement. Now Sea Wall / A Life, a dramatic exploration of transformative love and devastating loss, comes to Audible.

This collection of three of Henrik Ibsen's most well-known and important plays is voiced by a sparkling cast and features music, SFX and a full soundscape. Born in 1828, Norwegian playwright, theatre director and poet Ibsen, wrote in Danish yet lived for many years in Italy and Germany. Heralded as one the most distinguished dramatists after Shakespeare, by the early 20th century A Doll's House became the world's most performed play.

Antigone stood defiant in the face of tyranny. Best-selling and award winning author Colm Tóibín wrote this new dramatisation of the Greek tragedy especially to be performed by Irish actor Lisa Dwan. Pale Sister gives voice to Antigone’s sister, Ismene, who recounts her sister’s defiance of the king as pressures mount on her to act to vindicate her sister, or even follow her example. Pale Sister tells Antigone’s story through Ismene: the quiet person in the corner, bearing witness to everything.

"Tchou-tchou !" faisait le petit train en sinuant parmi les vallées de notre beau pays. Aujourd'hui, propulsé par l'électricité, il ne fait plus de fumée, ni plus aucun bruit... Il fonce et nous n'apercevons plus qu'à peine son beau fuselage chromé. Où es-tu, petit train ? Les écrivains te pleurent dans leurs livres, les écrivains t'admirent, les écrivains t'aiment. Petit train, ta machine superbe nous ouvre les yeux sur le monde avec un maximum de confort. Petit train, tu es notre porte sur l'inconnu. Petit train, dis-nous qui tu es !

When they met at an airport, it was love at first sight. But in time, everything collapsed. As an unnamed but unforgettable woman muses on her life—from meet cute to marriage and parenthood—her recollections inexorably build to a devastating truth. In this shattering performance, Carey Mulligan, star of the critically lauded drama An Education, captivates audiences with playwright Dennis Kelly’s harrowing ruminations on family, ambition, gender, and violence.

In this comprehensive anthology, former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has gathered together exceptional poems from the 14th century through to the present day, creating an extraordinary poetic journey for the listener. From the love poems of Shelley and Keats to the grim war elegies of Owen and Sassoon, there is a poem here for every sentiment, each with something different to offer.

A spirited factory worker on a mission. A nerdy manager with a propensity for puzzles. An unexpected adventure. Charmingly British and off-beat, Miscellaneous 0125 is a story about following your dreams, healing past traumas, and the joy of truly being understood.

Emily’s life changes after a terrible car accident when a magnetic stranger, Jax, steps in to take her hand. Their serendipitous union empowers Emily to finally feel comfortable in her own skin, but when the couple’s relationship veers off course, Emily is drawn into a web of obsession and lies. This audio play features immersive audio techniques; to maximize the listening experience, headphones are recommended (but not required!). Please note this audiobook contains strong language and adult themes. Discretion is advised.

Written and performed by London-based actor and poet Jade Anouka (His Dark Materials), Heart introduces us to a woman who finds herself married and divorced at age 28. As she begins the process of piecing her life together, she confronts the insecurities and self-imposed boundaries that have always held her back. In the process, she discovers love in the last place—and with the last person—she expected.

Emmy Award winner Matthew Rhys stars in this fascinating and award-winning one-man show about international star of stage and screen Richard Burton. Written by Mark Jenkins, Playing Burton offers a penetrating look at the notorious actor’s life, from growing up in an impoverished mining community in South Wales to becoming one of the greatest performers of his generation.

As they recount the events surrounding the disappearance of their toddler—one with a tendency to bite—two parents cope with grief in vastly different ways. While the father wrestles with feelings of guilt, the mother is convinced she’s spotted the boy in frightening TV news reports...though let’s just say he looks nothing like the precocious little boy they remember from a decade ago.

In an era of public versus private personas, a young woman decides to shake up her ordinary life by becoming a contestant on a reality television show. The manufactured paradise has no clocks, no way to contact the outside world, and nothing but time, a pool, and gorgeous people. As the days or weeks or months pass by, she discovers more about herself through the people around her and challenges her notions of identity and love. In a paradise where the only game is to fall in love, what will she do to win?

Drunk, dazed, disoriented, and stumbling down Clifton Street at 11:30 a.m., Effie is the kind of girl you’d likely avoid eye contact with while silently labeling a drifter or a delinquent. You’d probably pass judgment, assuming you know her - but you don’t know the half of it. As Effie’s life spirals through a mess of excess, drama, and addiction plaguing her at every turn, she has nothing to look forward to but a hangover worse than death itself each morning. Until one night gives her the chance to become something more.

Sakina's Restaurant breathes new life into an age old story: the emotive tale of an immigrant coming to New York in pursuit of the American dream. Actor, comedian, and writer Aasif Mandvi originally performed his Obie Award-winning solo show off-Broadway 20 years ago. This past October, the iconic play was reimagined and produced by Audible for a limited run at Minetta Lane Theatre in the West Village of Manhattan. Recorded for an Audible-exclusive audience, listeners can forgo the price of admission and embark on the cross-cultural journey with Mandvi.

À l'attaque ! En avant mes braves soldats ! Je suis touché ! Continuez sans moi ! Je vais vous retarder ! Où sont mes entrailles ? Ainsi vont les conversations sur le champ de bataille. Cependant, si l'on prend le temps un instant de méditer dans cet environnement pittoresque et hostile, une question se pose : que nous disent les livres qui racontent des guerres fictives ? En quoi s'affranchir du réel et de l'Histoire permet de parler du réel et de l'Histoire ?

Terminator revenait du futur pour supprimer le fils de Sarah Connor et ainsi empêcher une guerre atomique. Noble combat. Les écrivains dont nous allons parler aujourd'hui font le travail inverse : ils se projettent dans le futur pour décrire les formes qu'il pourrait prendre : idéales, ou désastreuses. De là à dire que les écrivains sont les anti-Terminator, il n'y a qu'un pas. Pourtant, avouez qu'un Terminator vs. Jules Verne ferait un fameux blockbuster de cinéma. C'est une idée à creuser.

Qui peut résister à l'odeur du barbecue durant une belle après-midi d'été, alors que les enfants chevauchent un crocodile gonflable dans une piscine elle-même gonflable ? Personne, et sûrement pas les écrivains, qui les premiers succombent à l'odeur délicieuse des mets cuits au charbon de bois. Tels des Jean-François Piège de la littérature, nous allons aujourd'hui, en tout bien tout honneur, sublimer votre tubercule stylistique !

"Alors que vous êtes pépère dans le métro à écouter de la musique, vous sentez une présence - quelque chose ou quelqu'un - vous épier. Vous n'osez pas vous retourner, car vous avez vu suffisamment de films qui collent les miquettes pour savoir que dès qu'on se retourne, on risque d'avoir très mal. Par chance, cette crise de paranoïa ne durera qu'un temps : le temps pour le musicien de métro de passer près de vous, et de vous offrir sa version, toute personnelle, du "Temps des fleurs".

"J'ai dix ans", chantait Alain Souchon, alors au sommet de sa gloire. Gros mytho ! Même s'il faut bien avouer que nous rêvons tous d'un jour redevenir les enfants que nous avons été, pour faire des pâtés à la plage, se croire chevaliers en brandissant des bouts de bois, ou cuisiner des frites en plastique sur une dînette dernier cri. Heureusement, la littérature est cette machine formidable qui nous permet de remonter le temps ! Choisissez votre année, et en route pour le passé !

Hernanani, c'est le nouveau rendez-vous qui fait bien plaisir sur la littérature ! À la croisée des siècles, des écrivains d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, des courants littéraires, et des petits clashes dans le respect, retrouvez Michel Pimpant et Quentin Leclerc pour une petite discussion au calme autour d'un sujet littéraire gourmand et croquant !