A long-time champion of children's theatre, Pullman has penned a new stage version of the classic story to go on show this December. ” My first Aladdin may have been a pantomime, or a Ladybird book, or a story in a child's edition of The Arabian Nights – I simply can't remember, and it doesn't matter. What mattered then was the sequence of wondrous events and the emotional colours they were suffused in: comedy, delight, suspense, fear, and not least that very suspect thing, the exotic, the oriental.” Read more. There's also an interesting article in the Independant about the current mini-revival of British panto, which features some quotes from Pullman – read it here.
Philip Pullman's Aladdin
November 28, 2005
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The Plays
-I Was A Rat!
-His Dark Materials (x2 runs at National Theatre and a third version at another theatre)
-Aladdin
The Movies
-His Dark Materials
-Sally Lockhart
Now, why isn't Philip Pullman as known as j.k. rowling, I wonder.
He\'s too talented.
Perhaps when those films and that TV series have actually come out he\'ll find a little more recognition.
it appears that he is a master playwrite too. i read somewhere that aladdin is brilliant because it is equally as funny for adults and children without including the dreaded slapstick for the children and terrible gags for the adults. he's a genius i tell you!
the firework maker\'s daughet was also adapted for stage.
two plays adapted for his middle school when he used to teach… one was aladdin.
and Count Karlstein
Saw him on the 6 o clock news doing his usual spiel about it being important for children to grow up with stories (it was in an item about the new children's theatre the Unicorn) and while it's a bit old hack it's nice to see they wheel him out whenever they want to make a point about children's literature. So much better than Rowling or Wilson :tongue:
^ Actually, so much better than anyone
An eternity better than rowling, though.
Agreed