Spell of Cold Weather

Charles Way has written over fifty plays and specialises in writing for children, young people and family audiences. His plays are performed worldwide. Charles has won several major awards – A Spell of Cold Weather won a Writer’s Guild award in 2001, in 2004 he received the English Arts Council award for Red Red Shoes and in 2010 he won the German Children’s theatre prize for Missing. Charles is also well known for his versions of classic tales such as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and The Snow Queen. He has also written many plays for radio, and a TV poem for BBC 2, NoBorders, set on the Welsh borders, where he lives and has spent most of his creative life.

“A show that addresses children's intrinsic sense of things unspoken and their capacity to embrace the realm of enchantment.” Time Out