Plays for Young People: Red Red Shoes/Eye of the Storm/Playing from the Heart (Paperback)
A collection of three fantastic plays for young people by a master of the genre.
Playing for the Heart explores the struggle of young Evelyn Glennie to become a percussionist despite her profound deafness. Eye of the Storm offers young audiences a contemporary version of The Tempest, with the opportunity for disguises. Red Red Shoes uses the context of Eastern Europe to explore war, ethnic boundaries and the struggle for life and death through the contemporary reworking of an old myth.
Charles has written over 40 plays, many of them for young people. He was recently commissioned by the National Theatre to write "Alice in the News", which children all over Britain have performed. He has written many plays for radio, and a TV poem for BBC 2, "No Borders" set on the Welsh borders, where he lives.