Stories in the Dark

Title: Stories in the Dark
Author: Oswald, Debra
Price: $24.99

Cast : 4F, 6M (doubling required)

A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears.

Into his life steps Anna older, street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, princes, singing bones, foolish lads and wolf-mothers.

Stories in the Dark explores the power of storytelling, mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence, conflict and the struggle to survive.

It contains 2 acts featuring 24 male and 11 female.

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 01/05/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780868198316