Nation
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 25, 2009
Closed Feb 21, 2010
Opened Nov 25, 2009
Closed Feb 21, 2010
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Following His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War Horse, comes Nation, Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's latest witty and challenging adventure story.
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.
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[Editor's Note: The National Theatre's production of Nation will be screened at movie theaters in the U.S. on Saturday, January 30 as part of the continuing NT Live series.]
A young girl who's lost her brother washes up on a foreign shore after a calamity at sea and finds love with a handsome local bigwig. No, it's not William Shakespeare's much-revived Twelfth Night. It's the National Theatre's sprawling Nation, adapted by the usually caustic Mark Ravenhill from Terry Pratchett's young-adult novel and being given a lush -- and somewhat sentimental -- production by Melly Still.
Unlike the Bard's frothier tale, Nation appears to be a belated strike against imperialism and a hearty v[...]