Will Tuckett directed a new adaptation by Moira Buffini at the Almeida Theatre in December 2007. A powerful and haunting classic about a girl haunted by her own dreams. The author adapted it herself as an opera libretto in 1999: the first performance of the opera Marianne Dreams took place in 2004 with music by the British composer Andrew Lowe Watson. It was illustrated with drawings by Marjorie-Ann Watts and published by Faber and Faber in.

Marianne Dreams has been the basis of several film, TV and radio adaptations, including the 1972 British ITV children's TV series Escape Into Night (which was quite faithful to the novel), and the movie Paperhouse (which was less so). Marianne Dreams is a childrens fantasy novel by Catherine Storr. Film, television and theatrical adaptations Her only companion in her dreamworld is a boy called Mark, who is also a long-term invalid in the real world.Ĭatherine Storr's later novel Marianne and Mark was a sequel to Marianne Dreams. As time goes by, she becomes sicker, and starts to spend more and more time trapped within her fantasy world, and her attempts to make things better by adding to and crossing out things in the drawing make things progressively worse. She draws a picture to fill her time and finds that she spends her dreams within the picture she has drawn. Marianne is a young girl who is bedridden with a long-term illness.

The first paperback edition, from Puffin Books in 1964, is catalogued by the Library of Congress as revised. It was illustrated with drawings by Marjorie-Ann Watts and published by Faber and Faber in 1958. Marianne Dreams is a children's fantasy novel by Catherine Storr. Marianne Dreams - Faber Childrens Classics (Paperback) Catherine Storr (author) 1 Review Sign in to write a review £7.

Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr