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Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats.

When his parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission – with a little help from a floating circus and its pride of performing lions.

Based on Zizou Corder's bestselling novels, Marcelo Dos Santos's adaptation fuses storytelling and circus in a gripping tale that provides great opportunities for amateur and school groups looking to perform a magical adventure.

Lionboy was commissioned and first produced by award-winning theatre company Complicite in 2013, and was revived in 2014 for an international tour.



Trade Review

'A beautiful, stylistic and intelligent adaptation'

* Teaching Drama *

'It twinkles with a sense of magical possibility… liveliness, invention and effortless appeal'

* The Times *

'A wonderfully imaginative adventure'

* Evening Standard *

Lionboy

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    A Paperback / softback by Zizou Corder, Marcelo Dos Santos

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      Publisher Nick Hern Books
      Published 18 December 2014
      ISBN-13 9781848424760
      978-1848424760
      ISBN-10 1848424760
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      Poetry

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats.

      When his parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission – with a little help from a floating circus and its pride of performing lions.

      Based on Zizou Corder's bestselling novels, Marcelo Dos Santos's adaptation fuses storytelling and circus in a gripping tale that provides great opportunities for amateur and school groups looking to perform a magical adventure.

      Lionboy was commissioned and first produced by award-winning theatre company Complicite in 2013, and was revived in 2014 for an international tour.



      Trade Review

      'A beautiful, stylistic and intelligent adaptation'

      * Teaching Drama *

      'It twinkles with a sense of magical possibility… liveliness, invention and effortless appeal'

      * The Times *

      'A wonderfully imaginative adventure'

      * Evening Standard *

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