Alex and the Winter Star

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In this hilarious sequel to Alex and The Warrior, Alex and Cat are once again faced with keeping the unruly Warrior under control, not an easy feat for the pair as I'm sure you all know. One year older, Alex has started to doubt his old friend Warrior, but Warrior cannot leave until he's vanquished his deadly enemy the Skarg... Somehow the dreaded Skarg, who still can't decide whether to destroy the Earth or star in the next Hollywood movie, have found a way to break out of the game and with their new found freedom are planning world domination! Only through securing the help of his friend Alex can Warrior stop the villains dastardly plans and save the world from invasion... Incorporating the themes of friendship and what it means to belong, Alex and the Winter Star is not only play jam packed with adventure, danger and magic, but is underlined by important concepts and issues. Ideal for young actors and schools, Alex's new adventures are sure to capture the imagination of young readers, sending them spinning into a mystical world of possibilities.

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Ann Coburn lives in Berwick upon Tweed and the wild landscape of NorthNorthumberland often features in her writing, which has a strong sense of place and a commitment to good story telling. Get Up & Tie Your Fingers, her first play, was premiered at the Borders Festival by Berwick-based theatre group, Fourth Wall Productions. It went on to have a successful run at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival. Get Up & Tie Your Fingers won the Arts Councils 1997 John Whiting award for new theatre writing and has since been toured nationally four times by NTC Touring Theatre Company, as well as enjoying a sell-out run at Sage: Gateshead in a version performed by The Guild of Lillians and various womens community choirs, with music specially composed by Karen Wimhurst. NTC have also commissioned and toured five other Ann Coburn plays: The Devils Ground and Safe (for which Ann was awarded the 2000 C.P.Taylor Bursary) for adults, and Alex and the Warrior, Alex and the Winter Star, and The Last Snowrider for children. Anns play, Daytime, a funny and moving look at the ethics of Jerry Springer-style talk shows, was written in 1998 and performed at Newcastle Playhouse as part of the North Easts Future Tense festival. Ann is also an award-winning fiction writer for young people. She has published twelve books so far, the most recent being Glint for older readers, and the Dream Team series for younger readers. When not writing under her own name, Ann leads a parallel life as a childrens fiction ghost writer. Her television work includes Refuge, a drama produced for ITV by Lightyears Films. Ann has also written for ITV police drama, The Bill. Ann works with other authors and playwrights of all ages, as a mentor and a tutor. She is currently tutoring on the MA in Creative Writing at NewcastleUniversity. For further details about Anns work, visit her website: www.anncoburn.com