Neil Duffield

eBook, ePUB

The Emperor and the Nightingale (eBook, ePUB)

- stage adaptation

Beschreibung

From a story by Hans Christian Andersen

In ancient China, young emperor Wu is kept a virtual prisoner in his palace by his devious guardian, Li Si. Wu believes the world outside the Forbidden City is an evil and dangerous place. But when Xiao, a young servant girl, tells him of the most beautiful sound on earth - the song of the nightingale - it's too much to resist. The two embark on an adventure that will take them across mountain tops and waterfalls, past chattering monkeys and magical dragons to the far reaches of his kingdom. When Wu returns with the nightingale, and starts to overturn the old palace customs, Li Si plots to restore things to the way they were before. Featuring puppetry, music and all the colour, movement and spectacle of Chinese theatre, this joyful adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale is a feast for the senses that will delight the whole family.

Neil Duffield has written more than fifty plays and adaptations which have been staged extensively throughout Britain and abroad. In 2006, he won the Arts Council England Children's Award for Small Fry 'for work which displays excellence, inspiration and innovation in children's theatre.' Neil lives in Bolton with his wife, theatre director Eileen Murphy.

Reviews of Plays for Youth Theatres and Large Casts 

"Neil Duffield is a highly successful writer of plays for children and young people, with over fifty productions under his belt, many of these commissioned by leading UK theatres and touring companies... Having worked closely with Neil during my career as a theatre director, I can vouch for his understanding of young audiences by the spellbound silences (and roars of laughter) that greet his productions."

- David Farmer, Drama Resource 

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• ohne Kopierschutz
• FamilySharing(5)

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech: false

Autor

The fairy stories of Hans Christian Andersen have become so popular among children and adults that they have almost become folk tales, part of the world's oral tradition of storytelling. The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Princess and the Pea, The Nightingale, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, Thumbelina, and The Little Mermaid have been enjoyed everywhere for more than 150 years. Andersen, an only child, was born in the Danish city of Odense in 1805; his mother took in washing and his father, who died when he was 11, was a shoemaker. He went to a local school and worked for a weaver and a tailor before, aged 14, moving to Copenhagen. He wrote his first story in 1828. He produced his first novel in 1835 and later wrote five more. He also wrote plays (but was never thought to be much of a dramatist), poetry, which is still popular in Denmark, travel books and an autobiography. But his lasting fame rests on his 168 fairy tales, from The Tinder Box in 1835 to Urbanus, not published till 1949; The Nightingale was published in 1843 and is said to have been inspired by his unrequited passion for the soprano Jenny Lind, who became known as the 'Swedish nightingale'. There are now Hans Christian Andersen museums in Odense and Copenhagen, which is also home to the statue of the Little Mermaid.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aurora Metro Books
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781910798928
• Artikelnr.: 55387801