by David Almond
for over 8's
National tour:
first production (February - April 2001)
second production (February - March 2003)
On a neglected allotment, where fairies grow and spiders spin spells, Elaine remembers her dead father. A wild boy watches her across the wilderness. He can barely speak, but she feels joy in her soul as he reaches out to her. Is he real, or has Elaine become lost in her imagination?
A gripping and emotionally engaging new play by Whitbread Prize and Carnegie Medal winning children's novelist David Almond, writer of Skellig, Kit's Wilderness and Heaven Eyes.
The first production of Wild Girl, Wild Boy was co-produced with Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and was a winner of Sainsbury's Checkout Theatre, an initiative to provide quality new theatre for the 10 - 14 year old age group.
"A marvellously subversive play"
The Guardian
"Bewitching...one of the season's highlights"
The Observer
"A touching, beautifully focused production"
The Stage
Performers - Janet Bamford, Adam Booth (2003 production), Mark Huckett (2001 production), Andy Oliver, Mandy Vernon-Smith
Director - Michael Dalton (2001)
Jane Wolfson (2003)
Designer - Will Hargreaves
Musical Directors - James Hesford & Mark Pearson of Ransom Notes