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CHARLES WAY  

 Nationality:    Welsh
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Charles began writing plays professionally in 1978 when he joined Leeds Playhouse TIE team. He has now written over forty plays, many of them for young people, and his work has been produced all over the world. These include Sleeping Beauty, The Search for Odysseus and A Spell of Cold Weather - which were all nominated as Best Children's Play by the Writer's Guild of Great Britain. He has recently published his 'Classic fairytales, retold for the stage' which includes Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, which were specially commissioned by The Library Theatre Manchester. His play about the percussionist Evelyn Glennie, which was first produced at the Polka Theatre for Children, was nominated as Best Children's Show by the TMA. Other plays include The Flood, Red Red Shoes, [Unicorn Theatre] One Snowy Night [Chichester Festival Theatre] The Tinderbox [Gwent theatre] and The Night Before Christmas. [Polka Theatre]. He was recently commissioned by the National Theatre to write Alice in the News, which children all over Britain have performed. Charles has won several awards and was last years recipient of the 'Children's award' given by the Arts Council of England for 'Red Red Shoes' [Unicorn Theatre and The Place] as best play for young people 2004. His play 'merlin and the Cave of Dreams', for Imagination Stage, was nominated for a Helen Hayes award for the 'Outstanding New Play of 2004'. Charles' plays for adults include a well-known version of Bruce Chatwin's On the Black Hill and an adaptation of Independent People by Halldor Laxness. In Wales he has had long associations with Gwent Theatre, The Sherman theatre and Hijinx theatre, for whom he has written' In the Bleak Midwinter, and Ill Met by Moonlight, both set on the welsh borders. Recent new plays include, Still life, about genetic science for The Plymouth Theatre Royal; The Long Way Home, for New Perspectives Theatre in collaboration with the CIAO festival, which has been performed in Croatia and The Dutiful Daughter which has been performed in ChinA. Charles has written many plays for radio, and a TV poem for BBC2, No Borders, set on the Welsh borders, where he lives and has spent most of his creative life.

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 Alice - an Adventure in Wonderland         Alice in the News         Beauty and the Beast         Borrowers, The         Butterfly Kiss         Chimes, The         Christening, The         Cinderella         Dead Man's Hat           Don't Just Sit There         Don't She Look Funny         Dove Maiden, The         Dutiful Daughter, The         Dying For A Living         Eye Of The Storm         Farm Dance         Flood, The         Golden Goose, The         Hard Times         Hoboken Chicken Emergency, The         Humbug         Ill Met By Moonlight         In Living Memory           In The Bleak Midwinter         Inner City Limits         Iron Ring         Long Way Home, The         Lorna Doone         Man Who Walked Through Walls, The         Merlin And The Cave Of Dreams         Missing         Monkey And The Crocodile, The         Night Before Christmas, The         On The Black Hill         Pandora's Drive         Pirates! A Boy At Sea         Playing from the Heart         Red Red Shoes         Search for Odysseus, The         Secret Seven Save The World, The         She Scored For Wales         Sleeping Beauty, The         Slings And Arrows         Snow Queen, The         Spell Of Cold Weather, A         Still Life         Tinderbox, The         Wanted! Robin Hood         Y Dilyw

Alice - an Adventure in Wonderland

Synopsis:
Carrol's playful assault on logic

Notes:
From Lewis Carroll

1st Produced:
Open Air, London    2000

Company:
New Shakespeare Company and Unicorn Theatre

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Alice in the News

Synopsis:
Follow Alice on a mad adventure, as she falls in to a newspaper and finds herself tangled in a conflict between the vowels, consonants and punctuation marks.

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Dundee Rep Creative Learning Youth Theatre

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short play

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Beauty and the Beast

Synopsis:
celebrate the fickle world of the fairytale as fortunes fail, dreams are dashed and love is tested to the limits. Faced with a bitter choice, can one man leave his beloved daughter at the hands of a beast? In order to save her father, Belle must cross the threshold into a grown up world. Can she find the courage to enter the beast's castle? This energetic and fast moving production brings real spark to a classic folktale. While storms rage and wolves howl a single rose will change the fate of one family.

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The Classic Fairytales retold for the stage: "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Sleeping Beauty" (Aurora Metro Press, 2002)   -

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Musical Play Musical

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Borrowers, The

Synopsis:
Pod, Homily and their teenage daughter Arrietty go on a perilous journey. Under pressure they argue, fight, worry and make up - family life!

Notes:
based on the books by Mary Norton

1st Produced:
Polka, SW19, London    1999

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Butterfly Kiss

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The writer has created a mysterious but revealing piece of theatre that reflects the hopes and fears of the rising generation. Charles Way explains: Our dreams are often wildly fantastical, but they are nearly all composed of elements derived from our own experience. It was this thought that lead me to wonder about the dreams of teenagers. What might they reveal about the concerns of the dreamers? Consequently a number of dream workshops with the youth theatre provided the material for the play.

Notes:
The experimental production is written by international Award-winning playwright Charles Way, And explores the nightly dreams of young people.

1st Produced:
Borough Theatre, Abergavenny    02 Feb 2012

Company:
Gwent Young Peoples Theatre

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Chimes, The

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Christening, The

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Cinderella

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The play is set in Germany at the time when a young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was trying to become a court composer. His music is key to this adaptation of the famous tale, and his composer's baton is not after all dissimilar to a magic wand. Thus the healing power of art and love is explored in this timeless romance. Indeed time itself, as in music, is key to the emotional sequence of events as the young Cinderella tries to overcome grief and find a new life, in rapidly changing times.

Notes:
Charles Perrault, Author

1st Produced:
-    2000

Company:
Theatr Powys

1st Published:
The Classic Fairytales retold for the stage: "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Sleeping Beauty" (Aurora Metro Press, 2002)   -

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Musical Play Musical

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Dead Man's Hat  

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1st Produced:
SW England tour    1991

Company:
Orchard Theatre Company

1st Published:
in Three Plays, Seren, 1995   -

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Don't Just Sit There

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Don't She Look Funny

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Dove Maiden, The

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1st Produced:
-    1996

Company:
Hijinx Theatre

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Dutiful Daughter, The

Charles Way
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.

Notes:
inspired by the peripatetic Adventures of Pericles, Shakepeare's refugee Prince of Tyre.

1st Produced:
Leeds, WYP Courtyard    2005

Company:
Chinese Crackers

1st Published:
Aurora Metro Press, 2005   0-9546912-6-1

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Dying For A Living

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Eye Of The Storm

Synopsis:
Eye of the Storm is a retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest, which tells the story from Miranda's point of view, as she struggles to grow up, on a magic island controlled by her father Prospero. When two other young people arrive on the island, Trinculo (a laddish sailor) and Stephano (who is really Stephanie but has dressed as a boy and run away from home) the underlying tensions and conflicts between daughter and father are accelerated in an amusing and Dramatic way. Will Miranda escape the island? Will she find out the truth about her long lost Mother?

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1st Produced:
SNAP Theatre, UK    1993

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1st Published:
in Plays for Young People by Charles Way, Aurora Metro Press, (2001, reprinted 2005)   -

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Genre:
PYA 90 min

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Farm Dance

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Flood, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Unicorn Childrens Theatre    1987

Company:
Theatr Iolo

1st Published:
Collins Educational, 1992   -

Music:
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Golden Goose, The

Synopsis:
Once upon a time there was a boy called Dummling and everyone believed he was stupid just because of his name. He lived in a poor cottage in the woods with his mother and brother. One day he meets an old man in the woods and shares his humble supper with him. The man is in fact the King of the fairies and a direct descendant of Oberon. He and his Queen, Titania, need to get a worthy and humane king on the throne of the blighted land in which they live, a king who will save the forest in which the fairies live from destruction. The Fairy King gives Dummling good luck in the form of a magical golden goose. When he takes it home his mother and brother try to take it from him but once they touch the goose they find they cannot let go and whats more they find that they cannot stop running. Run they must and run they do all the way to the palace where, as it chances, there resides the very mirror of their own family, but posh. The King Conrad has two daughters, Dajona who wont laugh and Birgit who wont stop. The King has sent out a proclamation that whoever makes his daughter laugh can have her hand in marriage, and thus be in line for the throne. When Dajona sees the Golden Goose and the people stuck to it, running for all they are worth she burst out laughing. The King is thrilled until he discovers that the boy who made her laugh is called Dummling and is a peasant. He sends Dummling on two ridiculous quests but Dummling, with the help of the fairy kingdom, succeeds in fulfilling both and thus becomes King thus completing a bloodless revolution and saving the Fairy Kingdom.

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Genre:
TYA

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  13 characters doubled

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Hard Times

Synopsis:
The prosperity of Coketown, dominated by hardline educationalist Thomas Gradgrind and the overbearing businessman Josiah Bounderby, is built on the cotton mills where thousands of men and women slave away. Gradgrind's doctrine, which banishes imagination and trumpets only the importance of facts and material progress, damages his children Louisa and Tom, leading to scandal and disaster. Hard Times will be a promenade production, with the audience being taken through the mill as the performance progresses, and will be performed in the atmospheric setting of Murrays' Mills, a restored Victorian mill in Ancoats, the old industrial quarter of Manchester.

Notes:
adapted from Charles Dickens's Hard Times

1st Produced:
Murray Mills in Ancoats, Manchester    2011

Company:
Manchester's Library Theatre

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Hoboken Chicken Emergency, The

Synopsis:
Thanksgiving draws near and Arthur is sent by his family to get a turkey - but they have all been sold. Professor Mazzocci sells him Henrietta a chicken that he has been experimenting on - a chicken that is now a huge 266 pounds. After causing havoc in Arthur's parent's apartment she is thrown out. Wandering around the townspeople get frightened at the sight of a giant chicken wandering the streets

Notes:
Music by Chad Henry; lyrics And book by Charles Way. Based on the book by Daniel Pinkwater

1st Produced:
-    1988

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Genre:
Childrens musical

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Humbug

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Ill Met By Moonlight

Synopsis:
A play that celebrates love's magical ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles

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1st Produced:
-    1994

Company:
Hijinx Theatre

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In Living Memory  

Synopsis:
A play about change, loss and renewal as experienced by succeeding generations in a Welsh mining community and tells the story of a family whose lives span the greater part of the twentieth century. Using a whole range of creative art forms this project generated opportunities for young people to reflect on the past, address the present and imagine what the future might hold for the youth of today.
- http://www.theatr-cymru.co.uk/plays/author_playlist.asp?author=Charles Way

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1st Produced:
Melville Theatre, Drama Centre, Abergavenny    2000

Company:
Gwent Theatre Company

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In The Bleak Midwinter

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1st Produced:
-    1993

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Hijinx Theatre

1st Published:
Exeter University Press
in Three Plays, Seren, 1995   -

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Inner City Limits

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Iron Ring

Synopsis:
The Iron Ring is a thrilling Indian epic of daring adventure and deep humanity. Take an incredible journey with King Tamar and his sidekicks - a brave and beautiful milkmaid, a cowardly eagle, and a wily monkey - as they try to win back his kingdom. Rooted in the mythology of ancient India, the story follows the travels of young Tamar who loses a game of chance with a mysterious stranger and finds himself on a voyage full of comedy, challenge, and adventure

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playsforyoungaudiences.org, 2010   -

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Youth Audience

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Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  ensemble

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Long Way Home, The

Synopsis:
A heart-warming story for the whole family about friendship through adversity. An old woman decides to walk home to the seaside village of her birth - a journey through dark woods, fertile plains and over snow-capped mountains. She soon meets a wild young boy in the forest whose only means of communication is to bark like a dog and the two become unlikely travelling companions. The Long Way Home is a traditional folk tale from the heart of old Europe, brought into the modern age through storytelling, music and magic.

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Hijinx Theatre

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Lorna Doone

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Man Who Walked Through Walls, The

Synopsis:
With jazz echoing around the streets of Montmartre, forties Paris prepares for the impending German occupation. In this tense atmosphere, a humble civil servant breaks free from his lonely workaday routine on discovering he possesses the magical power to walk through walls. Overnight he becomes the sensation of Paris as the Lone Wolf diamond thief. Though idolised and pursed by celebrity-struck women, his main satisfaction springs from humiliating his overbearing boss. Even when caught, prison walls do not a prison make.
http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/31107/the-man-who-walked-through-walls

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adapted from A Marcel Ayme short story.

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Theatr Powys

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Merlin And The Cave Of Dreams

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Pantomime

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Missing

Synopsis:
A brother desperately searches for his missing sister in a sinister world of deceit and unknown peril. Missing is a modern-day fairytale about two poor children surviving desperate circumstances through a rich mix of imaginative power, loyalty, love and sheer cunning.

Notes:
Theatr Iolo commissioned this new play from Welsh playwright Charles Way in cooperation with Theater Consol in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

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Theatr Iolo

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modern day firytale

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Monkey And The Crocodile, The

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Night Before Christmas, The

Synopsis:
Jimmy is living with his grandparents, and they are all dealing with the loss of Jimmy's father (and their son) while Jimmy's mother has gone to fight in the war for her husband. Nights are cold, there is little to eat, and they constantly have to run to the shelter to avoid air raid bombings. It seems a distant memory when anyone could really celebrate Christmas. When Jimmy rescues a woman from the rubble, his whole world is turned upside down, again. The rescued woman insists that she is the wife of Father Christmas, and that Jimmy must help her rescue him from the dubious Frost. Jimmy defeats Frost with his forgiveness and warmth, and with his friends, manages to save Christmas.

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1st Produced:
Polka, London    2001

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-

1st Published:
Plays for Young Audiences, 2010   -

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-

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90 min Play/Drama

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On The Black Hill

Synopsis:
Set on the Welsh border, the work spans most of the last century and centres on the lives of identical twins. For 42 years, Lewis and Benjamin Jones slept side by side, in their parent's bed, at their farm which was known as The Vision. So begins the winning story of twinship, love and belonging which won both the Whitbread Book and the James Tait Black awards

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adapted from the novel by Bruce Chatwin

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Play/Drama

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Pandora's Drive

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in Three Plays, Seren, 1995   -

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Pirates! A Boy At Sea

Synopsis:
Family life isn't perfect for our hero Jim, who is dealing with his parent's divorce. Jim takes comfort in his nautical artifacts, like his model ships and treasure chests. But Jim's imaginary world collides with reality when a real pirate from 1718 appears in his bedroom. Kidnapped by Captain Freely, the fearless female pirate who is at war with the naval Captain McGovern, Jim is transported back in time to solve the mystery of the disappearing treasure. In his adventures, Jim learns more about himself and leads the way to a peaceful reconciliation between the two captains.

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1st Produced:
Imagination Stage, Washington DC    2010

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-

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playsforyoungaudiences.org, 2010   -

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Playing from the Heart

Synopsis:
The story of Evelyn Glennie

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1st Produced:
Polka, SW19, London    1998

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-

1st Published:
in Plays for Young People by Charles Way, Aurora Metro Press, (2001, reprinted 2005)   -

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Play/Drama

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Red Red Shoes

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1st Produced:
Robin Howard Theatre, The Place    2001

Company:
Unicorn Theatre with The Place Theatre

1st Published:
in Plays for Young People by Charles Way, Aurora Metro Press, (2001, reprinted 2005)   -

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Search for Odysseus, The

Charles Way
An angry young man searches for his father even to the edge of the World

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Made in Wales

1st Published:
Playscript (Longman School Drama) (Longman, 2007)   978-1405856836

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Youth play

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Secret Seven Save The World, The

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From Enid Blyton

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She Scored For Wales

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Sleeping Beauty, The

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1st Produced:
Polka, SW19, London    1993

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The Classic Fairytales retold for the stage: "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Sleeping Beauty" (Aurora Metro Press, 2002)   -

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Slings And Arrows

Synopsis:
Gwent Theatre commissioned this Charles Way play to introduce youngsters to some aspects of the Shakespeare play in language they can easily understand. Two strolling players on their way to perform at Elsinore Castle. They rehearse, showing how adept they are at dumb show, meloDramatic miming that always pleases the groundlings. The haunted Hamlet intercepts the duo, giving them his version of a play in their repertoire that he hopes will catch the conscience of his uncle King Claudius, thus revealing him to be a royal regicide. It does, of course, although we do not progress to the fatal consequences.
- http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk

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Touring Welsh Schools    21 Jun 2010

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Gwent Theatre

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Snow Queen, The

Synopsis:
The Sherman's Christmas offering is a smorgåsbord of everything you could ask for in a family Christmas show: characters that light up the stage; a wonder-world of magic and invention and a spectacular set that carries you off, whatever your age.
- Allison vale, British Theatre Guide

Notes:
By Hans Christian Anderson, Adapted by Charles Way

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Plays for Young Audiences, 2009   -

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Christmas Show

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Spell Of Cold Weather, A

Synopsis:
Deep in the frozen heart of winter the worlds most miserable farmers have forgotten Christmas. But the snow has brought the magic of a mishevious fairy trickster. The animals talk, theres toothpaste in the slippers and a cockerel in the bedroom. Not what little Holly, on a visit from the city, was expecting and certainly not what she needs. Amidst the cold and chaos can she warm up this icy couple? Will friendship and laughter defrost in time to welcome the new year?

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1st Produced:
Melville Theatre, Drama Centre, Abergavenny    1999

Company:
Gwent Theatre Company

1st Published:
Aurora Metro Press, 2003   -

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TYA 60 min

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Still Life

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Parthian, 2005   -

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Tinderbox, The

Synopsis:
Jonas, a handsome young soldier discovers treasure beyond his wildest dreams when he finds a tinderbox which gives him power beyond other mortals. The Tinderbox is an epic journey tale, from rags to riches, though war, political intrigue, the depths of despair to the heights of love and passion. It is a classic everyman tale inspired by the Hans Andersen story but not a copy of it. This version of the tale reflects Andersens own life as he searched for fame and fortune. Jonas adventures explore friendship, betrayal and the importance of staying true to ones values. Exciting and touching, the story includes a fantastical range of characters- a witch, a king, a beautiful opera singer and a dog with eyes as big as saucers.

Notes:
adapted from Hans Christian Andersen

1st Produced:
Melville Theatre, Drama Centre, Abergavenny    2002

Company:
Gwent Theatre Company

1st Published:
http://www.playsforyoungaudiences.org/scripts/the-tinderbox   -

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TYA

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Wanted! Robin Hood

Synopsis:
Wanted! Robin Hood brings the well-loved, legendary characters of Robin and his Merry Men to life in a magical, fun-filled adventure story with music. With brave heroes, daredevil kidnappings, a cruel Sheriff of Nottingham and a very feisty Marian, it promises to be a thrilling show for everyone aged six and above.

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Christmas adaptation

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Y Dilyw

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-    1993

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Gwent Theatre

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-   -

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