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Encompass is a collection of three plays set in the past, the present and the future.Featuring The Deserter and Birth by Roger Goldsmith and 2049 AD by Janet Rawson.The Deserter | The First World War over. Jack Smith is back on civvy street. He dreams of his dead Mother. And of the war, and the deserter they found in a barn.Birth | Sybil reflects on how her life has changed since the birth of Rose. ''My Rose of England''. And how happy she is. And of a man she visits in prison.2049 AD | Derek is having an interview for an unusual and important

In 2020 R. M. Francis became Poet in Residence for the Black Country Geological Society. This book is a record of his deep time explorations of the region and his unearthing of an everyday sublime and terrestrial animism. This collection of poems, fieldnotes and essays tracks the layers of place with geological method, language and observation.

"The leaves fall, or is it snow? Ralph is stuck in a swamp on the enemy''s wasteland. He sings a Pig Song or two. Pig [Swamp] Songs is a work which listens to the world without striving neurotically after character and plot. It eludes definition. Rooney''s writing is in a vein where as much is received as projected. He doesn''t shout at you. He engages only with love, loss, death and the possibility of the infinite. The Pig Songs are the echo we crave, proof of our connectedness to a universe that exists beyond the fragile, disposable bodies in which we can seem helplessly enclosed. They are the mark, the stain, the rhythm of our common blood, of family, friends, of love. - from the introduction by Simon Usher"

By Robert Louis Stevenson and adapted by Nick Lane. Doctor Henry Jekyll is a good man. Successful within his field and respected by his peers, he''s close to a neurological discovery that will change the face of medical science forever. However, his methods are less than ethical, and when a close friend and colleague threatens to expose and destroy his work, Jekyll is forced to experiment on himself, whereupon something goes very wrong... or very right. And suddenly Jekyll has a new friend, the brutal Edward Hyde. A thrilling adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensons dark psychological fantasy, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde immerses you in the myth and mystery of 19th century London''s fog-bound streets where love, betrayal and murder lurk at every chilling twist and turn. Gripping, stylish and thought-provoking, this is unmissable theatre. Go on. Treat your dark side! This is the third edition of this adaptation.

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will"A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Jane Eyre tells the thrilling story of an orphan girl and her journey from a childhood of loneliness and cruelty to a life at Thornfield Hall and an unlikely relationship with the mysterious Mr Rochester. Falling in love, she gradually uncovers a hidden past to the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall, a terrible secret that forces her to make a heart-wrenching choice.Dont miss Blackeyed Theatre''s brand new stage adaptation of one of the greatest works of English fiction. Captivating, brooding and intensely powerful, Jane Eyre is a moving and unforgettable portrayal of one woman''s quest for equality and freedom, and lives as one of the great triumphs of storytelling.