Table of Contents

F o r e w o r d b y R o s a m u n d e H u t t 6
I n t r o d u c t i o n b y C h a r l e s W a y 9
R e d R e d S h o e s 1 3
I n t r o d u c e d b y T o n y G r a h a m
E y e o f t h e S t o r m 6 7
I n t r o d u c e d b y G a i l M c I n t y r e
P l a y i n g f r o m t h e H e a r t 1 1 5
I n t r o d u c e d b y V i c k y I r e l a n d
P l a y s p r o d u c e d a n d p u b l i s h e d 1 5 9

About the Author

This collection of three plays is by one of Britain's leading writers of
plays for children and young people. 'Red Red Shoes' won the Arts
Council's Award for Best Children's Play in 2004.
Charles Way was born in Devon in 1955, trained as an actor at the
Rose Bruford College in London, then joined the Leeds Playhouse
Theatre-in-Education team, for whom he wrote his first professional
play in 1978. He became Resident Writer at Theatre Centre in
London and has since written over forty plays including adaptations,
radio, television and large-scale community theatre.
His work has been translated into French, German, Russian, Greek
and Welsh and performed all over the world.
His play 'A Spell of Cold Weather' (Aurora Metro) won the Writers'
Guild Award for Best Children's Play in 1996. He was also invited to
the Sundance Institute in Utah to work on The Dove Maiden, which
subsequently toured Britain with Hijinx Theatre Co. Also published:
'The Classic Fairytales, retold for the stage' (Aurora Metro)
He is a member of the Writers' Guild, and the Welsh Academy of
Authors. He lives in Wales, with his wife and two children.

Reviews

'An inspirational piece of children's theatre' The Guardian