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David Wood: Fostering the first shoots

Passing a 50-year milestone in his career as a playwright, David Wood is renowned for introducing children to theatre with his creative stories. Nick Smurthwaite meets Wood to discuss his latest step into play production packs for primary schools
David Wood

David Wood is by far the UK's most prolific writer of plays for children. At the last count he'd notched up 75 texts – some original, and some adaptations of other people's work, including Roald Dahl, Dick King-Smith and Judith Kerr.

Now, after more than half a century of producing his plays in theatres and arts centres, Wood is offering up five of his best-known plays for production in primary schools.

Each of the five plays – The Gingerbread Man, The See-Saw Tree, The BFG, Save the Human and Mother Goose's Golden Christmas – is accompanied by extensive staging tips and lesson plans by drama teacher Paul Bateson.

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