Author : Nigel Bryant
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780435233136
A dramatization of Dickens's classic novel, requiring a cast of between 11 and 30. The complex story moves forward quickly with the use of open staging.
Author : Brendan P. Kelso
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781505815757
Oliver Twist like you have never read it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 8-22+ actors, kids of all ages, or anyone who wants to enjoy and have fun with Charles Dickens' classic story. What you will get: Fun! 3 melodramatic modifications for group sizes: 8-12+ 13-18+ 17-22+ Actual lines from Charles Dickens' novel mixed in Creatively funny interpretations of the remaining story A kid who loves the Classics! This mini-melodramatic masterpiece is sure to be a doorway for your child to love all the classics. Some classic books are difficult enough to read in class or watch on stage, let alone trying to teach the stories to children, but as the author's mantra states in the book, "there is no better way to learn than to have fun!" Kids who have read this continue to come back for more!* *Guaranteed!
Author : John Waller
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1840464704
From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 24,78 MB
Release : 2020-10-14
Category :
ISBN :
The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.
Author : Tomie dePaola
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1481477587
This beautiful edition of Tomie dePaola’s progressive 1979 classic stars a special little boy who won’t give up on the dreams that make him unique. Oliver Button is a sissy. At least that’s what the other boys call him. But here’s what Oliver Button really is: a reader, and an artist, and a singer, and a dancer, and more. What will his classmates say when he steps into the spotlight?
Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374603960
Winner of the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award in Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize in Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vulture, The Times Literary Supplement, and more Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold. Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.
Author : Alfred Reed
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2000-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780634024146
(Richmond Music Instrumental). One of Broadway's beloved stage productions is now available from Hal Leonard with this classic arrangement from veteran writer Alfred Reed. With such memorable songs like Oliver, Where Is Love, I'd Do Anything, As Long As He Needs Me, and Consider Yourself, this concert arrangement should be a part of every orchestra's library.
Author : Brendan P Kelso
Publisher : Playing with Plays
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2016-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780998137667
Hamlet like you have never read it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 6-20+ actors, kids of all ages, or anyone who wants to enjoy and loosely understand Shakespeare's play. What you will get: Fun 3 melodramatic modifications for group sizes: 6-7+ 8-14+ 11-20+ Actual lines from Shakespeare's play mixed in Creatively funny interpretations of the remaining script A delightfully funny rendition that is easy for ADULTS to understand too A kid who loves Shakespeare This mini-melodramatic masterpiece is sure to be a doorway for your child to love all the classics. Shakespeare is difficult enough in class or watching on stage, let alone trying to teach the stories to children, but as the author's mantra states in the book, "there is no better way to learn than to have fun " Kids who have read this have also eventually purchased Shakespeare's entire works and have completed 'hero' reports on Shakespeare at school. Guaranteed to have you and your kids coming back for more
Author : George Almar
Publisher :
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2015-12-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781522773160
George Almar was a popular Victorian actor and comedian known for writing melodramas and in his adaptation of "Oliver Twist" he made use of every one of the elements of dramatic melodrama for his production at the Surrey Theatre. In fact, the production's melodramatic staging such as the gruesome murder of Nancy by Sikes and the crude criminal activities of the characters caused the management of the theatre to issue a reply to the public outcry against such things being presented on stage. Of course, all this lead to a successful box office and a run of over 80 performances. The play would go on to have many provincial tours, and in America it became a staple of stock companies, still playing well into the 20th Century. Published as part of Theatre Arts Press' Dickens Dramatized Series of Plays.
Author : Guy Williams
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 1999-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780174325482
A play based on the classic story by Charles Dickens.
