NT Live Nation 30 January 2010
based on a novel by Terry Pratchett
adapted by Mark Ravenhill
This performance will be broadcast live with several cameras in the auditorium and views of the stage may be blocked at any time during the performance. Please note:
- This is a studio performance.
- The light and sound will be adjusted for broadcast.
- There will be 360degree filming – resulting in audience members being filmed.
- Everyone must be seated by 1.30pm. No latecomers will be admitted.
- Tickets are priced at £10 for the whole auditorium.
Following His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War Horse, the National Theatre's latest spectacular family production is an exhilarating adventure story of survival and self-discovery based on a novel by Terry Pratchett.
A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau’s village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other’s language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe’s fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.
Live music, thrilling dance and spectacular puppets combine to bring to life the spectacular and surprising world of Terry Pratchett's Nation on the National Theatre stage.
Suitable for 10yrs+
World Premiere
Press coverage of Nation
- Read the Daily Telegraph's 4 STAR review of Nation
- Listen to Melly Still talk about Nation on Woman's Hour
- Emily Taaffe interviewed in The Irish World
- Gary Carr interviewed in The New Black Magazine
- Daily Telegraph interview with director Melly Still
- Interview with Mark Ravenhill on the Official London Theatre website
- Melly Still interviewed for Whatsonstage.com
- Guardian & Terry Pratchett's Nation young film-making competition
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