Overview
A wide-ranging new collection of plays for young people across the globe from award-winning playwright Charles Way, in a follow-up to his acclaimed collection 'Plays for Young People'. This volume includes 'Missing', a modern take on Hansel and Gretel about the nature of poverty, which won the German Children's Theatre Prize 2010 and has had eight productions in Germany alone; 'Nivelli's War', about a six-year-old German evacuee and his journey home at the end of World War II; and 'Pirates' about a boy at sea, which was nominated for both the Writer's Guild Best Children's Play Award and a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play. Charles Way has written over 50 plays, many of them for young people. He was commissioned by the National Theatre to write 'Alice In The News', which children all over Britain have performed. He has 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. he is the most-performed modern playwright in Wales.Details