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The plays listed on these pages have all been professionally commissioned and produced.

For persusal scripts and performing rights for either professional or amateur production, contact Charles Way.

I’ve simply got to read The Borrowers. If it’s even close to as good as Charles Way’s adapted stage version of Mary Norton’s 1952 children’s novel (with music and lyrics for the Irish stage version by Fionn Foley) it’ll be a treasure.' Sunday Independent

'This is such a good-hearted show, and so well executed, it sends you away with a mighty spring in your step.'` The Irish Independent

SHOW OF THE WEEK **** 'With its clever effects and sense of wonder, The Borrowers has fun, fear, song, the sad and the serious.' The Irish Mail on Sunday

Directed by Róisín McBrinn. Music + lyrics by Fionn Foley

'How, you might well wonder, does a much-loved children’s book about tiny people in full-sized world, translate to the stage? It’s fine if you are constructing it for television or to film, because you have the assistance of super-special effects, which can make an audience believe in just about anything. The answer for Hull Truck is to give us some enchanting puppetry – with no strings attached.

'Mary Norton’s original novel has charm, and lashings of whimsey, but there’s also a black side to it, and Charles Way’s superlative adaptation is not afraid to dodge the issue. He gives all the nastiness to one character, the formidable Mrs. Driver, played with carpet-chewing gusto by Megan Leigh Mason.'
Yorkshire Post *****

Directed by Mark Babych, Music by John Biddle