| Wood Plays: 1 Contributor(s): Wood, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0413737004 ISBN-13: 9780413737007 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: These two collections include the best plays by the dramatist/performer considered to be Britain's best-known writer of children's plays. Plays: 1 includes The Gingerbread Man: '... the perfect children's play, with lots of superbly silly jokes and foot-rapping songs ... a magnificent epic of domestic disarray' (Time Out); The See-Saw Tree; The Ideal Gnome Exhibition and Mother Goose's Golden Christmas. The titles in Plays: 2 comprise The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See... '... funniest, prettiest and most melodious children's show I have ever seen' (Guardian); The BFG (based on Roald Dahl); The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner and Save the Human. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 822.914 |
| Series: Contemporary Dramatists |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.14" W x 7.81" (0.55 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As playwright, composer and director, Mr Wood has given children a self respecting art form (The Times) The Gingerbread Man - 'The perfect children's play, with lots of superbly silly jokes and foot-tapping songs ... a magnificent epic of comic disarray' (Time Out); The See-Saw Tree - 'We are made to feel at once that the theatre is something immediate and involving' (Times); The Ideal Gnome Expedition - 'David Wood has surely scored again ... yet another gently entertaining excursion into a fantasy world where eminently sensible values prevail' (Daily Telegraph); Mother Goose's Golden Christmas - 'I cannot recommend this pantomime highly enough ... an enchanting blend of mirth and music that captivates the hearts of mums, dads and kids' (Romford Observer) |