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Railway Children

E. Nesbit
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781848421318
  • Weight: 100g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Oct 2010
  • Publisher: Nick Hern Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

Mike Kenny's imaginative stage adaptation of E. Nesbit's much-loved children's classic.

Famously filmed, this story of a prosperous Edwardian family - mother and three children - forced into near-penury in the rural north of England captures the anxieties and exhilarations of childhood with great tenderness and insight.

As Mike Kenny says of his remarkably faithful adaptation, 'You don't need a real train to perform this play… the most powerful prop is the imagination of the audience, the most effective tool the skill of the actors.' So this version of The Railway Children, which offers three plum roles for young performers, is eminently suitable for schools, youth theatres and drama groups - anywhere, in fact, where the cry of 'Daddy! My Daddy!' is likely to provoke a tear.

Mike Kenny's version of The Railway Children was first staged at the National Railway Museum in York in 2008, before receiving a major production at Waterloo Station in London in 2010, for which it won the 2011 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. It has been staged many times since.
About E. Nesbit
E. Nesbit (1858–1924) was an English novelist and poet, most famous for The Railway Children and Five Children and It. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated with the Labour Party. Mike Kenny is one of Britain’s leading children’s playwrights, and was included in the Independent on Sunday's list of Top Ten Living UK Playwrights. His adaptation of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children won an Oliver award for Best Entertainment and has toured worldwide.

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