Roald Dahl's The Twits (NHB Modern Plays) E-Book

Roald Dahl

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Mr and Mrs Twit are not very nice. In fact they're extremely nasty. They're nasty to each other, and they're VILE to everyone else. They hold a family of monkeys hostage in a cage and force them to stand on their heads. ALL THE TIME. We told you they weren't very nice. Can the monkeys find a way to show those vicious Twits what for? Mischievously adapted from Roald Dahl's story, acclaimed playwright Enda Walsh turns The Twits upside down and brings this revolting revolution to the stage. First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in April 2015.

Leseprobe

mischievously adapted by

Enda Walsh

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

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Contents

Title Page

Original Production

Characters

Roald Dahl’s The Twits

About the Authors

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

This adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Twits was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 7 April 2015, with the following cast:

YORKSHIRE TERRIER MAN

Sam Cox

MONKEY MUM

Cait Davis

MRS TWIT

Monica Dolan

MONKEY DAUGHTER

Aimée-Ffion Edwards

TATTOOED FORTUNE-TELLER LADY

Christine Entwisle

MONKEY SON

Oliver Llewellyn-Jenkins

MONKEY FATHER

Glyn Pritchard

HANDSOME WALTZER BOY

Dwane Walcott

MR TWIT

Jason Watkins

Director

John Tiffany

Associate Director/Movement

Steven Hoggett

Composer and Musical Supervisor 

Martin Lowe

Designer

Chloe Lamford

Lighting Designer

Philip Gladwell

Sound Designer

Gregory Clark

Characters

MONKEY DAD

MONKEY DAUGHTER

MONKEY MAM

MONKEY SON

MR TWIT

MRS TWIT

TATTOOED FORTUNE-TELLER LADY

HANDSOME WALTZER BOY

YORKSHIRE TERRIER MAN

This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

ACT ONE

There’s a cage in the front of the stage – and crammed inside this cage is a family of flea-ridden, emaciated MONKEYS – dressed in simple play clothes (like the children in The Sound of Music).

MONKEY DAUGHTER is working on something we can’t see – as MONKEY MAM holds a little mirror redirecting moonlight to light her daughter’s work – and MONKEY SON