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Gizmo & Don’t Eat Little Charlie

Gizmo & Don’t Eat Little Charlie

by Tankred Dorst (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

Ben Mason has been paralysed with fear after witnessing a fatal shooting. Help is at hand by means of a cutting-edge technological device until the 'gizmo' falls into the wrong hands. Granmaha's bizarre household - Charlie, Olmo the greedy guts, Pug the dog and electric girl Fizzipizzi - is threatened with eviction until Antunes o Rei, the king of music, arrives. Gizmo by Alan Ayckbourn and Don't Eat Little Charlie by Tankred Dorst with Ursula Ehler were specially commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections Scheme for young people.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber
Published: 20 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 057120693X
ISBN 13: 9780571206933
Book Overview: This volume contains Gizmo by Alan Ayckbourn and Don't Eat Little Charlie by Tankred Dorst with Ursula Ehler, two plays for young people, specially commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections Scheme.

Author Bio
Alan Ayckbourn was born in London in 1939 to a violinist father and a mother who was a writer. He left school at seventeen with two 'A' levels and went straight into the theatre. Two years in regional theatre as an actor and stage manager led in 1959 to the writing of his first play, The Square Cat, for Scarborough's Theatre in the Round at the instigation of his then employer and subsequent mentor, Stephen Joseph. Some 75 plays later, his work has been translated into over 35 languages, is performed on stage and television throughout the world and has won countless awards. There have been English and French screen adaptations, the most notable being Alain Resnais' fine film of Private Fears in Public Places. Major successes include Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Norman Conquests, A Small Family Business, Henceforward ..., Comic Potential, Things We Do For Love, and Life of Riley. Surprises was first presented at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and subsequently at the the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in 2012. In 2009, he retired as Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, where almost all his plays have been and continue to be first staged, after 37 years in the post. Knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre, he received the 2010 Critics' Circle Award for Services to the Arts and became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards.