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| Title: | Stories in the Dark
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| Author: | Debra Oswald |
| ISBN: | 0868198315 : 9780868198316 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 135x210mm |
| Pages: | 56 |
| Weight: | .1 Kg. |
| Published: | Currency Press - April 2008 |
| List Price: | 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Drama texts: from c1900- |
A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. Into his life steps Anna -- older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, princes, singing bones, foolish lads and wolf-mothers. "Stories in the Dark" explores the power of storytelling, mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence, conflict and the struggle to survive. (2 acts, 24 male, 11 female).
