CHARLES WAY
| Nationality: | Welsh |
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Plays by Charles Way
Alice - an Adventure in Wonderland |
| 1st Produced: | Open Air, London | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | New Shakespeare Company and Unicorn Theatre | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Notes: | From Lewis Carroll | |||||
| Synopsis: | Carrol's playful assault on logic | |||||
Beauty and the Beast |
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| 1st Published: | The Classic Fairytales retold for the stage: "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Sleeping Beauty" (Aurora Metro Press, 2002) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Musical Play | Musical | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 |
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| Synopsis: | celebrate the fickle world of the fairytale as fortunes fail, dreams are dashed and love is tested to the limits. Faced with a bitter choice, can one man leave his beloved daughter at the hands of a beast? In order to save her father, Belle must cross the threshold into a grown up world. Can she find the courage to enter the beast's castle? This energetic and fast moving production brings real spark to a classic folktale. While storms rage and wolves howl a single rose will change the fate of one family. | |||||
Borrowers, The |
| 1st Produced: | Polka, SW19, London | 1999 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | based on the books by Mary Norton | |||||
| Synopsis: | Pod, Homily and their teenage daughter Arrietty go on a perilous journey. Under pressure they argue, fight, worry and make up - family life! | |||||
Chimes, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Christening, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Cinderella |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | Theatr Powys | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Classic Fairytales retold for the stage: "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Sleeping Beauty" (Aurora Metro Press, 2002) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Musical Play | Musical | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 5 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | Cinderella is a journey from sickness to health, from darkness to light. It's all about the transforming power of music and light. A traditional interpretation of a magical fairy story for all ages. - http://www.theatr-cymru.co.uk/plays/author_playlist.asp?author=Charles%20Way | |||||
Dead Man's Hat |
| 1st Produced: | SW England tour | 1991 | ||||
| Company: | Orchard Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Three Plays, Seren, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | cast : 5 | |||||
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Don't Just Sit There |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Don't She Look Funny |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Dove Maiden, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1996 | ||||
| Company: | Hijinx Theatre | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Dutiful Daughter, The |
| 1st Produced: | Leeds, WYP Courtyard | 2005 | ||||
| Company: | Chinese Crackers | |||||
| 1st Published: | Aurora Metro Press, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | 0-9546912-6-1 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | inspired by the peripatetic adventures of Pericles, Shakepeare's refugee Prince of Tyre. | |||||
 | A group of troublesome actors arrive in a modern city. They tell the story of Ke Xin, princess of the Isle of Joy, who is always obedient until the day the sea brings to her island home a strange sailor, a raving fool without a memory, a man who will challenge everything she believes in. | |||||
Dying For A Living |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Eye Of The Storm |
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| 1st Published: | in Plays for Young People by Charles Way, Aurora Metro Press, (2001, reprinted 2005) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Farm Dance |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Flood, The |
| 1st Produced: | Unicorn Childrens Theatre | 1987 | ||||
| Company: | Theatr Iolo | |||||
| 1st Published: | Collins Educational, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Humbug |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Ill Met By Moonlight |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1994 | ||||
| Company: | Hijinx Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Synopsis: | A play that celebrates love's magical ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles | |||||
In Living Memory |
| 1st Produced: | Melville Theatre, Drama Centre, Abergavenny | 2000 | ||||
| Company: | Gwent Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A play about change, loss and renewal as experienced by succeeding generations in a Welsh mining community and tells the story of a family whose lives span the greater part of the twentieth century. Using a whole range of creative art forms this project generated opportunities for young people to reflect on the past, address the present and imagine what the future might hold for the youth of today. - http://www.theatr-cymru.co.uk/plays/author_playlist.asp?author=Charles%20Way | |||||
In The Bleak Midwinter |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | Hijinx Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Exeter University Press in Three Plays, Seren, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Inner City Limits |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Long Way Home, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | Hijinx Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A heart-warming story for the whole family about friendship through adversity. An old woman decides to walk home to the seaside village of her birth - a journey through dark woods, fertile plains and over snow-capped mountains. She soon meets a wild young boy in the forest whose only means of communication is to bark like a dog and the two become unlikely travelling companions. The Long Way Home is a traditional folk tale from the heart of old Europe, brought into the modern age through storytelling, music and magic. | |||||
Lorna Doone |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Merlin And The Cave Of Dreams |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Aurora Metro Press, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Pantomime | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | - | |||||
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Missing |
| 1st Produced: | 30 Sep 2009 | |||||
| Company: | Theatr Iolo | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | modern day firytale | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | Theatr Iolo commissioned this new play from Welsh playwright Charles Way in cooperation with Theater Consol in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. | |||||
| Synopsis: | A brother desperately searches for his missing sister in a sinister world of deceit and unknown peril. Missing is a modern-day fairytale about two poor children surviving desperate circumstances through a rich mix of imaginative power, loyalty, love and sheer cunning. | |||||
Monkey And The Crocodile, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Night Before Christmas, The |
| 1st Produced: | Polka, London | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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On The Black Hill |
| 1st Produced: | 1986 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 5 |
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| Notes: | adapted from the novel by Bruce Chatwin | |||||
| Synopsis: | Set on the Welsh border, the work spans most of the last century and centres on the lives of identical twins. For 42 years, Lewis and Benjamin Jones slept side by side, in their parent's bed, at their farm which was known as The Vision. So begins the winning story of twinship, love and belonging which won both the Whitbread Book and the James Tait Black awards | |||||
Pandora's Drive |
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| 1st Published: | in Three Plays, Seren, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Pirates! A Boy At Sea |
| 1st Produced: | Imagination Stage, Washington DC | 2010 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Playing from the Heart |
| 1st Produced: | Polka, SW19, London | 1998 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays for Young People by Charles Way, Aurora Metro Press, (2001, reprinted 2005) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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Red Red Shoes |
| 1st Produced: | Robin Howard Theatre, The Place | 2001 | ||||
| Company: | Unicorn Theatre with The Place Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Plays for Young People by Charles Way, Aurora Metro Press, (2001, reprinted 2005) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Search for Odysseus, The |
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| Company: | Made in Wales | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscript (Longman School Drama) (Longman, 2007) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Secret Seven Save The World, The |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Notes: | From Enid Blyton | |||||
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She Scored For Wales |
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Sleeping Beauty, The |
| 1st Produced: | Polka, SW19, London | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Classic Fairytales retold for the stage: "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast" and "Sleeping Beauty" (Aurora Metro Press, 2002) | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Snow Queen, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Christmas Show | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
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| Notes: | By Hans Christian Anderson, adapted by Charles Way | |||||
| Synopsis: | The Sherman's Christmas offering is a smörgåsbord of everything you could ask for in a family Christmas show: characters that light up the stage; a wonder-world of magic and invention and a spectacular set that carries you off, whatever your age. - Allison vale, British Theatre Guide | |||||
Spell Of Cold Weather, A |
| 1st Produced: | Melville Theatre, Drama Centre, Abergavenny | 1999 | ||||
| Company: | Gwent Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | Aurora Metro Press, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | cast : 4 | |||||
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Still Life |
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| 1st Published: | Parthian, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Tinderbox, The |
| 1st Produced: | Melville Theatre, Drama Centre, Abergavenny | 2002 | ||||
| Company: | Gwent Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 0 |
| Parts Other: | 4 people | |||||
| Notes: | - | |||||
| Synopsis: | A strange and haunting tale of a young soldier who has nothing in the world but his good looks, but after a dramatic encounter with a witch and some very odd dogs he becomes wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. How does he cope? Will his wealth help him secure the happiness and love he has desired so long? A humorous and moving journey from ignorance to enlightenment. A story as old as the hills but a story for our times. A love story, always highly theatrical, told with music and engaging imagery. - http://www.theatr-cymru.co.uk/plays/author_playlist.asp?author=Charles%20Way | |||||
Y Dilyw |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1993 | ||||
| Company: | Gwent Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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