Search results for ""Author Charles Way""
Aurora Metro Publications New Plays for Young People
• 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.
£12.99
Aurora Metro Publications Plays for Young People
A collection of plays by one of Britain's leading writers of plays for children and young people. Winner of the Writers Guild Best Children's Play in 1996, Way's critically acclaimed plays receive multiple productions and are performed internationally.
£10.61
Parthian Books Still life
Simon has come to the house to interview its famous resident, a reclusive artist known simply as Charles. the house is remarkable, its profound beauty born from a combination of high technology and artistic flair. But the house also turns out to be a place of danger, a prison and a laboratory, holding secrets both dark and luminous which will challenge Simon's very notion of who he is and why he exists. Still Life is an intense drama that explores how science is challenging our moral universe and what it is that makes us human.
£8.70
Aurora Metro Publications A Spell of Cold Weather
Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Children's Play Award. Holly has to spend New Year with the grumpiest pair of farmers who ever ploughed a field. Luckily, she meets a faery called Tom, whose magic and mischief brighten up her days and transform her stay into a real adventure.
£9.18
Aurora Metro Publications The Dutiful Daughter
Bi-lingual English and Mandarin Edition Mandarin translation by Yang Lijun A group of troublesome actors arrive in a modern city. They tell the story of Ke Xin, princess of the Isle of Joy, who is always obedient until the day the sea brings to her island home a strange sailor, a raving fool without a memory, a man who will challenge everything she believes in. A timeless tale of love, power and transformation that explores many of the key issues faced by young people today.
£9.18
Aurora Metro Publications Hard Times
Original by Charles Dickens Adapted for the stage by Charles Way Dominated by Gradgrind and Bounderby, Coketown's prosperity is built on the cotton mills where thousands of men and women slave away for long hours and little pay. Gradgrind's obsession with material progress damages his children Louisa and Tom, leading to scandal and disaster. Hard Times celebrates the importance of the human heart in an age obsessed with materialism. Circus, music, and dark comedy all go into the rich mix of this truly Dickensian theatrical tale.
£10.64
