Three war plays by Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse, dramatised by Simon Reade.
Private Peaceful relives the short life of Tommo growing up in rural Devon before fighting the battles and facing the injustices of the First World War. In Toro! Toro! young Antonito liberates his favourite bull from the ritualised killing of the bullfight as he tries to escape the Spanish Civil War. In The Mozart Question Paolo Levi discovers the astonishing truth about his parents flight to Venice from the gas chambers of the Second World War.
Each play is accompanied by an introduction from Michael Morpurgo.
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Three war plays by Michael Morpurgo, the UK's leading children's author and author of War Horse, dramatized by Simon Reade.
"Introduction 9 by Simon Reade Finding Private Peaceful 12 by Michael
Morpurgo Private Peaceful 14 Stumbling upon a bull in Spain 57 by Michael
Morpurgo Toro! Toro! 58 The Violinist 89 by Michael Morpurgo The Mozart
Question 90"
The celebrated collaboration between childrens author Michael Morpurgo and playwright and former RSC literary manager Simon Reade has also created the BBC radio play and the feature film of Private Peaceful, Polka Theatres production of Twist of Gold, and the concert series that includes On Angel Wings. Simons other plays include Pride & Prejudice, The Scarecrow and His Servant, Not the End of the World and, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Midnights Children and Tales from Ovid.
