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Twist of Gold

By:
Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Simon Reade
Composer:
Olly Fox
Management:
Polka Theatre
Cast:
Trevor Allan Davies, Jo Castleton, Charlie Hamblett, Ian Harris, Clive Llewellyn, Clare McMahon
Director:
Philip Wilson
Design:
Max Jones
Sound:
Max Perryment
Lighting:
Philip Gladwell

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Michael Morpurgo's sensitive portrayals of man's inhumanity to man, and how the fallout affects children, translate well into theatre for young people. In this adaptation of a story set in the Irish famine years, Simon Reade toes a familiar line. As well as doing justice to the peaks and troughs of the incredible journey endured by the two children, Sean and Annie O'Brien, escaping the hunger, he must sustain a pace that's lively enough for an audience of nine to 13-year-olds...

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