A Ghost in My Suitcase
The play
$28.49
- Paperback
56 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2019
Summary
Adapted by Vanessa Bates from Gabrielle Wang’s award-winning novel, A Ghost in My Suitcase is an action-packed adventure story that crosses cultural and spiritual worlds.
Twelve-year-old Celeste - ‘half French, half Chinese and all Australian’ - travels to China to scatter her mother’s ashes. There she meets her grandmother, Por Por, a quirky and wise woman with an unusual skill. Por Por is a ghost-hunter and her services are much in demand.
When Celeste learns she may…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760622886 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760622885 |
| Author: | Gabrielle Wang, Vanessa Bates |
| Publisher: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 56 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 80g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 209mm x 137mm |
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Critics Review
WINNER: 2019 AWGIE Award for Theatre for Young Audiences.“A Ghost In My Suitcase is superb family theatre a stylish, big-hearted and vibrant adaptation of a much-loved childrens book”. The Age“This is a sophisticated and poetic rendition adapted by Vanessa Bates, ostensibly for children, but calibrated also for an adult sensibility”. ArtsHub
About The Author
Gabrielle Wang
VANESSA BATES is an award-winning playwright for stage and radio and also writes for film and television. She has been an affiliate playwright of the Sydney Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre with plays also produced by Malthouse, Deckchair and Vitalstatistix Theatre. Her work has won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the Patrick White Playwright Award and the Griffin Award.
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