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How do you transform a novel into a play?
Melly Still made some bold choices in deciding to display raw emotion
Music became one of the stars of this production
Horrific as well as sublime moments from the lives of children and young people
Actors create a wood, the sound of dying children and the fury of the mothers of lost babies
Among other things, poverty, slavery and child abuse were researched for this production
Coram Boy was ‘road tested’ in six weeks of workshops at the National Theatre Studio
Aaron, Thomas and Meshak swim for their lives
Hanging, drowning, birth and death
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