: How best-selling writer Enid Blyton created the template for children’s theatre in Britain #IndiaNEWS Head to London’s West End and you are likely to find all sorts of plays for families, inspired
How best-selling writer Enid Blyton created the template for children’s theatre in Britain #IndiaNEWS
Head to London’s West End and you are likely to find all sorts of plays for families, inspired by some of the most loved children stories. There is JK Rowling’s Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, Neal Foster’s adaptation of David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny and Tim Minchin’s “anarchically joyous, gleefully nasty and ingenious musical adaptation� of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, as theatre critic Lyn Gardner described it.The popularity of theatre for children and for adapting children’s books for the stage begins in Britain with the works of best-selling children’s writer Enid Blyton (1897-1968) in the 1950s. By this time Blyton had, as The New York Times reported, made herself “supreme above all authors� and was “a category all herself�. This was thanks to her long-running magazine Sunny Stories, adventure series such as The Famous Five and The Secret Seven and stories set in the boarding schools Malory Towers and St Clare’s. It was not unusual for bookshops to have a designated Enid Blyton section due to her regularly publishing 30 or more books a year – 39 in 1951 and 44 in 1952.It made sense, then, to adapt her stories for the stage and she sometimes had two shows running in London during the Christmas season: Noddy in Toyland (1954-’59) and the thriller Famous Five Adventure (1955-1956). The importance of Blyton’s literary achievements remains a contentious issue but...Read more
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