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Skellig

  • David Almond
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day
  • 6M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573132322

Man, bird or angel? Who, or what, is Skellig?

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Present Day
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
Man, bird or angel? Who, or what, is Skellig?

Michael was looking forward to moving house. It was all going to be wonderful. But now his baby sister’s ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. What is this thing beneath the spider webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never seen before? The only person Michael can confide in is Mina. Together they carry the creature into the light, and Michael’s world changes for ever.

David Almond’s own adaptation of his renowned novel, winner of The Carnegie Medal, The Whitbread Children’s Book Award, and a string of prizes around the world. A timeless classic, published in over 40 languages, it touches the minds, hearts and souls of people of all ages. The story has become a movie, an opera, a radio play and this stage play, first produced at the Young Vic, and directed by Trevor Nunn.

Premiere Production: Skellig was first performed at Young Vic, 66 The Cut, London SE1 on 21 November, 2003.
  • Casting: 6M, 4F
  • Casting Attributes: Roles for Children

  • MR STONE - an estate agent
    DAD - an ordinary man
    MUM - an ordinary man
    MICHAEL - an ordinary boy
    SKELLIG - a man/creature with wings. A mystery
    RASPUTIN - a science teacher
    THE YETI - a teacher
    MISS CLARTS - an English teacher
    LEAKEY - a boy, Michael's friend
    COOT - a boy, Michael's friend
    MINA - a home-schooled girl, Michael's neighbour
    LUCY CARR - a schoolgirl
    NURSE - a kind nurse
    OLD WOMAN - an arthritis patient
    DOCTOR MCNABOLA - a surgeon
    MRS MCKEE - Mina's mother
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    Man, bird or angel? Who, or what, is Skellig?

    Michael was looking forward to moving house. It was all going to be wonderful. But now his baby sister’s ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage. What is this thing beneath the spider webs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never seen before? The only person Michael can confide in is Mina. Together they carry the creature into the light, and Michael’s world changes for ever.

    David Almond’s own adaptation of his renowned novel, winner of The Carnegie Medal, The Whitbread Children’s Book Award, and a string of prizes around the world. A timeless classic, published in over 40 languages, it touches the minds, hearts and souls of people of all ages. The story has become a movie, an opera, a radio play and this stage play, first produced at the Young Vic, and directed by Trevor Nunn.

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