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The Boy Who Fell into a Book
The Boy Who Fell into a Book is Alan Ayckbourn’s wonderfully inventive play for children – fast-moving, fun and full of special effects.
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Rockfist Slim’s enemies have just plunged him into yet another desperate situation when Kevin has to close his detective book and go to sleep. But his own adventure is only just beginning. Fast-moving, fun and full of special effects, Ayckbourn’s wonderfully inventive play for children brings alive several well-known children’s books as Kevin and Rockfist Slim escape the baddies and plunge into many different worlds.
The Boy Who Fell into a Book premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in December 1998.
Alan Ayckbourn was born in London in 1939 to a violinist father and a mother who was a writer. He left school at seventeen with two ‘A’ levels and went straight into the theatre. Two years in regional theatre as an actor and stage manager led in 1959 to the writing of his first play, The Square Cat, for Scarborough’s…
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