Lionboy (NHB Modern Plays)

Charlie Ashanti lives in a future where phones are powered by the sun, cars are banned and companies are more powerful than countries. Charlie is a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats.When his parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission - with a little help from a floating circus and its pride of performing lions.Based on Zizou Corder's bestselling novels, Marcelo Dos Santos's adaptation fuses storytelling and circus in a gripping tale that provides great opportunities for amateur and school groups looking to perform a magical adventure.Lionboy was commissioned and first produced by award-winning theatre company Complicite in 2013, and was revived in 2014 for an international tour.'It twinkles with a sense of magical possibility... liveliness, invention and effortless appeal' - The Times'A wonderfully imaginative adventure' - Evening Standard