Morpurgo: War Plays

Three war plays by Michael Morpurgo, the United Kingdom's leading children's author and author of War Horse, are brilliantly dramatized by Simon Reade. Includes: Private Peaceful; Toro Toro , a Spanish Civil War story; and The Mozart Question, about the child of World War II gas chamber survivors. Each play is accompanied by an introduction by Morpurgo himself.

The celebrated collaboration between children’s 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 Theatre’s production of Twist of Gold, and the concert series that includes On Angel Wings. Simon’s other plays include Pride & Prejudice, The Scarecrow and His Servant, Not the End of the World and, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Midnight’s Children and Tales from Ovid.