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Lionboy (stage version)

Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: The Future
  • Target Audience: Young Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)
  • Set Requirements: Flexible

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary, College Theatre / Student
Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats.

When his parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission – with a little help from a floating circus and its pride of performing lions.

Based on Zizou Corder's bestselling novels, Marcelo Dos Santos's adaptation fuses storytelling and circus in a gripping tale that provides great opportunities for amateur and school groups looking to perform a magical adventure.

Lionboy was commissioned and first produced by award-winning theatre company Complicite in 2013, and was revived in 2014 for an international tour.

REVIEWS:

"A beautiful, stylistic and intelligent adaptation."

 Teaching Drama

"It twinkles with a sense of magical possibility… liveliness, invention and effortless appeal."

 The Times

"A wonderfully imaginative adventure."

 Evening Standard

Premiere Production: Complicite, 2013.
  • Casting: 6M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for younger performers, Expandable casting

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Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats.

When his parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission – with a little help from a floating circus and its pride of performing lions.

Based on Zizou Corder's bestselling novels, Marcelo Dos Santos's adaptation fuses storytelling and circus in a gripping tale that provides great opportunities for amateur and school groups looking to perform a magical adventure.

Lionboy was commissioned and first produced by award-winning theatre company Complicite in 2013, and was revived in 2014 for an international tour.

$24.95