Blue Door Venture: Book 4
By (Author) Pamela Brown
4
Pushkin Children's Books
Pushkin Children's Books
28th November 2018
6th December 2018
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
224
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
The seven young members of the Blue Door Theatre Company are, at long last, professional actors. And they are now proudly in charge of the first commercial theatre in their hometown of Fenchester. But the day-to-day pressures of financing the theatre and choosing box-office attractions are soon eclipsed by an event that threatens to close the theatre almost as soon as it has opened.
Following the characters from the classic of children's literatureThe Swish of the Curtainon an adventure which takes them far from the stage of the Blue Door Theatre,The Blue Door Ventureis the fourth book in theBlue Doorseries.
"I wanted to act before I read [The Swish of the Curtain], and afterwards there was no stopping me" --Maggie Smith
"An enchanting book. A must for any child who wants to become an actor" --Eileen Atkins
Pamela Brown (1924-1989) was a British writer, actor and television producer. She was just 14 when she started writing her first book, and the town of Fenchester in the books is inspired by her home town of Colchester. During the Second World War, she went to live in Wales, so The Swish of the Curtain was not published until 1941, when she was 16. She used the earnings from the books to train at RADA, and became an actor and a producer of children's television programmes.