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  • ENGLISH

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  • 288

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  • 9780571177493

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  • 1 mm

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  • 13 mm

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  • 315 gram

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 20 OCTOBER 1997

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    Description

    Described by The Times as the national childrens dramatist, David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing and acting in plays for children for more than twenty-five years. His best known work, from his play The Gingerbread Man to his adaptations of Roald Dahls The BFG and The Witches have enjoyed national and international professional success and entered the repert Described by The Times as the national childrens dramatist, David Wood has been writing, adapting, directing and acting in plays for children for more than twenty-five years. His best known work, from his play The Gingerbread Man to his adaptations of...  Read More

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    David Wood

    DAVID WOOD began writing as a student at Oxford University in the sixties.

    He wrote his first play for children in 1967 and has since written over sixty more.
    They are performed all over the world and include THE GINGERBREAD MAN (nine London seasons), THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT WENT TO SEE... (six London seasons, co-written with Sheila Ruskin), THE SELFISH SHELLFISH, THE SEE-SAW TREE, SAVE THE HUMAN (from the story he wrote with cartoonist Tony Husband), THE IDEAL GNOME EXPEDITION and THE PLOTTERS OF CABBAGE PATCH CORNER.

    His stage adaptations of well-known books include Dick King-Smiths BABE THE SHEEP-PIG, Roald Dahls THE BFG and THE WITCHES (both of which played long tours and two West End seasons), THE TWITS, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and FANTASTIC MR FOX, DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD and GEORGE’S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE, HRH The Prince of Wales THE OLD MAN OF LOCHNAGAR, Michael Foremans DINOSAURS AND ALL THAT RUBBISH, Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowskis MEG AND MOG SHOW (five London seasons for Unicorn Theatre), Philippa Pearces TOMS MIDNIGHT GARDEN (which Unicorn Theatre played on tour, in the West End and on Broadway) and Judith Kerr’s THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA.

    He was dubbed the national childrens dramatist by Irving Wardle in The Times and published, to rave reviews, THEATRE FOR CHILDREN: GUIDE TO WRITING, ADAPTING, DIRECTING AND ACTING (Faber), co-written with Janet Grant, which has become required reading on the subject in the UK and the US, and is now published in China.

    He directed many of his plays for his own company, Whirligig Theatre (founded with John Gould in 1979), which for 25 years toured to major theatres nationwide include Sadlers Wells in London.

    Film screenplays include SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS and BACK HOME, which won a gold award at the New York Film and TV Festival 1991. Writing for television includes the series CHIPS COMIC, CHISH N FIPS and THE GINGERBREAD MAN; and TIDE RACE, his filmed drama for C

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