Bücher der Reihe Oberon Plays for Young People

A Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned stage adaptation of Russell Hoban's classic children's novel.

A new children's play from the brilliant playwright Dennis Kelly, a Tony Award-winner for Matilda the Musical.

Carrie Willow and her brother Nick are evacuees transported to the safety of the countryside in the 1940s. There they stay with Mr Evans; Auntie Lou, and Albert Sandwich and Mr Johnny, who speaks his own language, and Hepzibah, the witch at Druid's Grove who makes perfect mince pies. And then there's the ancient skull with its terrifying curse.

Anthony Clark first turned Albert Lamorisse's fifties French film into a stage musical in 1989. It has been revived on numerous occasions.