Plays for Young People

This collection of three plays is by one of Britain's leading writers of plays for children and young people. 'Red Red Shoes' won the Arts Council's Award for Best Children's Play in 2004. Charles Way was born in Devon in 1955, trained as an actor at the Rose Bruford College in London, then joined the Leeds Playhouse Theatre-in-Education team, for whom he wrote his first professional play in 1978. He became Resident Writer at Theatre Centre in London and has since written over forty plays including adaptations, radio, television and large-scale community theatre. His work has been translated into French, German, Russian, Greek and Welsh and performed all over the world. His play 'A Spell of Cold Weather' (Aurora Metro) won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Children's Play in 1996. He was also invited to the Sundance Institute in Utah to work on The Dove Maiden, which subsequently toured Britain with Hijinx Theatre Co. Also published: 'The Classic Fairytales, retold for the stage' (Aurora Metro) He is a member of the Writers' Guild, and the Welsh Academy of Authors. He lives in Wales, with his wife and two children.

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'An inspirational piece of children's theatre' The Guardian