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y separately published work icon Second Childhood : The Play single work   drama   children's   young adult  
Note: Adapted for the stage from the novel by Morris Gleitzman.
Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Second Childhood : The Play
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Suitable for upper primary and lower secondary students, the play investigates how Australians see themselves and the heroes who have shaped our national identity.

Production Details

  • First performed 15 May 2001 by the Melbourne Theatre Company and Hothouse Theatre at the Fairfax Studio, Melbourne.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 2001
    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 2002 .
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      Extent: x, 95p.p.
      ISBN: 0143300121 (pbk), 9780143300120 (pbk)
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y separately published work icon Second Childhood Morris Gleitzman , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble Penguin , 1990 Z546459 1990 single work novel young adult adventure humour When they are given a history assignment on the lives of famous people, Mark and his friends discover that they are the reincarnation of such celebrities as Henry Ford, Albert Einstein, Queen Victoria and Phar Lap. Then they discover that they've been responsible for several of the world's major problems and they try to make up for their past mistakes. (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
form y separately published work icon Second Childhood Morris Gleitzman , ( dir. Mario Andreacchio ) 1990 Z1561530 1990 single work film/TV children's young adult adventure humour fantasy

'Mark and his friends discover they've lived before. Not only that, they were famous and important people. Mark is elated—his father always wanted him to be "a somebody". Then Mark and the others find they are responsible for several of the world's big problems. So Henry Ford, Queen Victoria, Albert Einstein and Phar Lap set out to make up for what they've done. Never has a school history project been so dangerous, exciting … or hilarious.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive (http://www.australiantelevision.net/more_winners.html). Sighted: 10/11/2011
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Works about this Work

Unabashed Author Aims to Reoffend Robin Usher , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 16 September 2004; (p. 4)
Untitled Chris Dayman , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 46 no. 3 2002; (p. 27)
— Review of Second Childhood : The Play Glenn Parry , 2001 single work drama
Untitled Chris Dayman , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 46 no. 3 2002; (p. 27)
— Review of Second Childhood : The Play Glenn Parry , 2001 single work drama
Unabashed Author Aims to Reoffend Robin Usher , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 16 September 2004; (p. 4)
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