Lionboy
$33.89
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
18 December 2014
Summary
Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats.
When his parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission – with a little help from a floating circus and its pride of performing lions.
Based on Zizou Corder’s bestselling novels, Marcelo Dos Santos’s adaptation fuses storytelling and circus in a gripping tale …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848424760 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848424760 |
| Author: | Zizou Corder, Marcelo Dos Santos |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 18 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 82g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘It twinkles with a sense of magical possibility… liveliness, invention and effortless appeal’
‘A beautiful, stylistic and intelligent adaptation’
* Teaching Drama *‘It twinkles with a sense of magical possibility… liveliness, invention and effortless appeal’
* The Times *‘A wonderfully imaginative adventure’
* Evening Standard *‘A unique, bold piece of theatre that has a great deal to say about humanity. Beyond the fantastical nature of the show lie timely and pertinent themes… it is heartwarming and reassuring to see young actors afforded such a platform’
* LondonTheatre1 *Zizou Corder
Marcelo Dos Santos is an award-winning playwright and scriptwriter.His plays include: Backstairs Billy (West End, 2023); Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen (Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2022 and Bush Theatre, London, 2023); New Labour (RADA, 2014, directed by Richard Wilson); Lionboy adapted from the novels by Zizou Corder (Complicite, 2013 and 2014); Lovers Walk (Southwark Playhouse); and Cheer Up, This is Only the Beginning (Liverpool Playhouse).He was named Most Promising Playwright at the 2024 Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards for Backstairs Billy.
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