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Tom's Midnight Garden

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 5m

David Wood, Philippa Pearce

Tom's Midnight Garden
by David Wood
From the book by Philippa Pearce

Philippa Pearce's 1950s classic is here brilliantly adapted for the stage by David Wood. Quarantined in his aunt's and uncle's stuffy flat, Tom is restless and bored. Intrigued by a grandfather clock, Tom is startled one night to hear it strike 13! S…

Tom's Midnight Garden

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 5m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptations (Literature), Theatre for Young Audiences, Period

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Summary
Philippa Pearce's 1950s classic is here brilliantly adapted for the stage by David Wood. Quarantined in his aunt's and uncle's stuffy flat, Tom is restless and bored. Intrigued by a grandfather clock, Tom is startled one night to hear it strike 13! Slipping out of bed he goes to what in his time is a concrete backyard, only to discover a beautiful 1880s Victorian garden where he meets the unhappy orphan, Hatty.
M5 F3, with doubling.
  • Time Period 1950s
  • Setting Various interior and exterior settings.

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  • Optional Music/Media Fee: £32 per performance

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David Wood

David Wood

David Wood has been called “the national children’s dramatist” (London Times). His plays are performed worldwide, and include The Gingerbread Man, The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner, Save the Human, Aladdin, Hijack Over Hygenia, Jack the Lad, Larry the Lamb in Toytown, Old ...

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Philippa Pearce

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