Overview

• New collection of plays for young people across the globe from award-winning playwright. • Ideal for schools, colleges and youth theatre companies. Follow up to the acclaimed PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE by award-winning playwright, includes: Missing: a modern take on Hansel and Gretel, about the nature of poverty, inspired also by true events. A gripping story of a brother searching for his missing sister in a sinister world of deceit and unknown peril. This is a modern day fairytale about two children surviving desperate circumstances through a rich mix of power, loyalty, love and sheer cunning. This play won the German Children's Theatre Prize 2010 and has had eight productions in Germany and one here. Nivelli’s War: about a six year old German Evacuee and his journey home at the end of WW2. Pirates: about a boy at sea, the play is on the surface a rollicking pirate tale and can be enjoyed as a fantasy adventure - but it is also a story about a child's emotional journey as he sails the tempestuous seas of his parents' separation. This was nominated both for the Writer's Guild Best Children's Play and a Helen Hayes Award in America for Outstanding new play. Winner of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education 'Distinguished Play' Award 2012.

Full Product Details

9781906582517

Table of Contents

Reviews

Missing: 'has proven its effectiveness in production and in 2010 was honored with the highly prestigious German Children's Theatre Prize.' Janet Stanford - Imagination Stage Pirates: 'Seriously intelligent children's theatre that's also great fun. The domestic and the fantastical are ingeniously blended. Delightful.' Time Out (London) Critic's Choice Nivelli's War: 'a vivid and moving theatrical account of an incredible journey - inspired by a true story.' Paul McEneaney, Cahoot's NI

Author Information

Charles Way has written over forty plays, many of them for children and young people. He was commissioned by the National Theatre to write Alice In The News, which children all over Britain have performed. He has also written many plays for radio, and a TV poem for BBC 2, No Borders, set on the Welsh borders, where he lives and has spent most of his creative life.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available