Beasts and Beauties: Eight Tales from Europe

by Carol Ann Duffy (Adapter), Carol Ann Duffy (Adapter), Melly Still (Collaborator), Tim Supple (Collaborator)

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2004
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'One of those rare nights in the theatre when some strange alchemy takes place in the dark and as a shiver runs down your spine and a bubble of laughter rises in your throat, you remember why theatre really matters and can be such a transforming experience.' Guardian Includes the following dramatisations/stories: Blue Beard The Husband Who Was to Mind the House The Three Wishes Beauty and the Beast The Emperor's New Clothes Toby and the Wolf The Juniper Tree The Girl and the North Wind Beasts and Beauties premiered at the Bristol Old Vic in April 2004.

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'One of those rare nights in the theatre when some strange alchemy takes place in the dark and as a shiver runs down your spine and a bubble of laughter rises in your throat, you remember why theatre really matters and can be such a transforming experience.' Guardian Includes the following dramatisations/stories: Blue Beard The Husband Who Was to Mind the House The Three Wishes Beauty and the Beast The Emperor's New Clothes Toby and the Wolf The Juniper Tree The Girl and the North Wind Beasts and Beauties premiered at the Bristol Old Vic in April 2004.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 117
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 21 Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 0571226698
ISBN 13: 9780571226696
Book Overview: Beasts and Beauties by Carol Ann Duffy was described in the Guardian as providing 'One of those rare nights in the theatre when some strange alchemy takes place in the dark'.

Author Bio

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for Best Collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, while Rapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011), which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her Collected Poems was published in 2015. She is Poet Laureate.