 | With Euphoria – the twelfth and last volume – the EDEN miniatures series is now complete. The EDEN miniatures are twelve handsome compact paperbacks that contain the entirety of EDEN by FREI – a concept narrative in the here & now about the where, the wherefore and forever. Starting out from the classic question, 'what would you say or do if you were to bump into your younger self in a delightful garden cafe in Istanbul?' EDEN goes off on deliberately wide tangents, encompassing self-contained short stories, autobiographical fiction, fictitious biography, poetic prose and philosophical meanderings, before ultimately arriving at some sort of conclusion. Tender, funny and at times maybe infuriating, EDEN paints a picture of what it is to be human today. |
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The Ice King as Audiobook The Ice King is the first in the EDEN miniatures series to become available as an audio book:
"Deep inside the glacier lives The Ice King, supple and smooth. His skin is aglow with the cold, and unbelievably soft. He should be milky white, but there’s an olive tint to his hue, and no sooner do I see him, than I want to touch him." The Ice King is a poetic short story about life in a world of the senses and the expanded mind. BUY AUDIOBOOK
Sebastian Michael returns to the stage opposite the extremely talented young actor Tom Medcalf with a new play on passion, power and possession, featuring the Sonnets of William Shakespeare.
This will be the first time that an Optimist Creations production participates at the Edinburgh Fringe - at the new Greenside Nicolson Square venue - and it will be our first collaboration with theatre director Ros Philips. In The Sonneteer two contemporary characters delve into the past to explore what drove the now celebrated playwright, poet and actor to compose a suite of sonnets about beauty, life and the passage of time and address them to a handsome young man. In the process, they discover a fascinating, plausible truth about love. There will be two London previews, at the Landor Theatre, on the 18th and 19th July, before the production goes up to Edinburgh for a full Festival run from 1st to 23rd August 2014. Tickets for all performances are now available and there's a special, celebratory Early Bird offer with 154 tickets priced at 450 pence, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. thesonneteer.info Top Story is available on video! Recorded at the legendary Old Vic Tunnels underneath London's Waterloo Station in January 2013, the play is now a standalone piece that you can watch as an online stream or download to own.
And so as to make it accessible to everybody, we have not set a price. Instead: you just pay whatever you feel is right. Watch the new trailer and the whole of Top Story here. Starting 7th January 2014 - the first anniversary of its world premiere at The Old Vic Tunnels underneath London's Waterloo Station - Top Story is being serialised on its own dedicated YouTube channel with one scene being added every day until the play is complete.
A full version of Top Story - The Video will soon also be made available for online streaming. Stay tuned for updates. Top Story on YouTube The Hour of Living will be released on DVD in the United States on 19th November 2013. Pre-order it now from TLAvideo.com
The Hour of Living is now available as Video on Demand (VOD) download in Switzerland from artfilm.ch.
The Hour of Living is to have its first public screening in London, at the beautiful Lexi Cinema in Kensal Rise, on Wednesday, 24th April at 6:30pm.
Tickets are priced at £10.50 (full) and £7.50 (concessions) and booking is now open at the cinema's website here. |
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