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A rain forest bar and brothel in the brutally war-torn Congo is the setting for Lynn Nottage's extraordinary new play. The establishment's shrewd matriarch, Mama Nadi, keeps peace between customers from both sides of the civil war, as government soldiers and rebel forces alike choose from her inventory of women, many already "ruined" by rape and torture when they were pressed into prostitution. Inspired by interviews she conducted in Africa with Congo refugees, Nottage has crafted an engrossing and uncommonly human story with humor and song served alongside its postcolonial and feminist pol…

In the savage 1942 winter siege of Leningrad, as the Russians fight off the Nazi invaders, three teenagers - Lika, Marat and Leondik - are thrown together. Losing everything from their past, they forge a new love that binds them and a new hope which keeps them alive: the promise of a better future. Arbuzov's classic of the 1960s is revived here in Nick Dear's stunning adaptation for the Tricycle Theatre, London in 2002.

Three teenage misfits in Salem, Oregon discover they are linked by a sex scandal that s rocked their town. When one of them sets out to expose the truth, secrets become currency, the stakes get higher, and the trio s connection grows deeper in this searching, fiercely funny dark comedy with music.

If You've A Ready Mind is a novel-length (approximately 90,000 words) Harry/Draco AU by Maya that was posted in ten installments on her LiveJournal between December 2005 and July 2006. The story uses a common Harry Potter fanfic trope — sorting a character into a different House — to show how Draco Malfoy might have developed in Ravenclaw instead of Slytherin.

Drawing inspiration from Hollywood and the French New Wave, Nikkatsu Action pictures blended East and West, movie-fuelled fantasies, and gritty realities of life in postwar Japan. More than 30 years later the Nikkatsu Action legacy lives on.