The Starlight Express

For other uses, see Starlight Express (disambiguation).

The Starlight Express is a children's play by Violet Pearn,[1] based on the imaginative novel A Prisoner in Fairyland by Algernon Blackwood, with songs and incidental music written by the English composer Sir Edward Elgar in 1915.

The Starlight Express: cover from 1916
  1. ^ Dramatist Violet Pearn, born at Plymouth in 1890, was the author of many plays, and adapted several of Algernon Blackwood's tales.