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The Twits

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  8any gender (adult)

By Roald Dahl
Adapted for the stage by David Wood

Bored with playing schoolkiddish tricks on one another, the grotesque, satisfyingly revolting couple Mr and Mrs Twit turn their attentions to capturing and training a family of monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, for a circus act.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    8any gender (adult)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Fantasy, Theatre for Young Audiences

Details

Summary

Bored with playing schoolkiddish tricks on one another, the grotesque, satisfyingly revolting couple Mr and Mrs Twit turn their attentions to capturing and training a family of monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, for a circus act. The monkey's cruel incarceration in a cage is avenged when the birds trick the Twits into believing the world has turned upside-down. The Twits join in, aided by the birds who drop glue on their hair, and the audience is encouraged to play their part in freeing the monkeys.

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8 characters. Children.

  • Setting A circus tent, a caravan, a cage, a tree

Media

ON BREAKING CHARACTER

Playwright Interview: David Wood

Licensing & Materials

  • Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.

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Authors

David Wood

David Wood has been called “the national children’s dramatist” (London Times). His plays are performed worldwide, and include The Gingerbread Man, The Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner, Save the Human, Aladdin, Hijack Over Hygenia, Jack the Lad, Larry the Lamb in Toytown, Old ...

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. His first moment of inspiration came when he was at boarding school, when a local chocolate factory invited pupils to trial new chocolate bars. Thirty-five years later, Charlie and ...

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