Nation

T1339811314
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.

Book by	Terry Pratchett
Adapted by	Mark Ravenhill

Archive :: production:T1339811314, play:S0246809259, venue:V156

Production details

World Premiere (Olivier). Running time: 2hrs 40mins inclu. interval. NT LIve Broadcast

Performance

Venue	Warwick Arts Centre
	Other spaces: TheHub, Studio, Butterworth Hall, The Goose Nest
Town	Coventry
County	West Midlands
From	30th January 2010
To	30th January 2010
When	13:45
Prices	From £10.00. To £10.00.
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Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Corporate Sponsor	Accenture
Producer	National Theatre
Director	Melly Still
Design	Melly Still
Design	Mark Friend
Costume	Dinah Collin
Lighting	Paul Anderson
Other	Jon Driscoll (projections)
Music	Adrian Sutton
Sound	Paul Arditti
Design	Yvonne Stone (puppets and puppetry)
Performer	Gary Carr (Mau)
Performer	Emily Taaffe (Daphne)
Performer	David Ajala (Milo)
Performer	Gaye Brown (Grandmother)
Performer	Paul Chahidi (Cox)
Performer	Elaine Claxton (Ensemble)
Performer	Adrian Decosta (Ensemble)
Performer	Mike Denman (Ensemble)
Performer	Lorna Gayle (Marisgala)
Performer	Nancy Wei George (Ensemble)
Performer	Howard Gossington (Ensemble)
Performer	Tony Hasnath (Ensemble)
Performer	Robert Hastie (Ensemble)
Performer	Amy Loughton (Ensemble)
Performer	Michelle Lukes (Ensemble)
Performer	Nick Malinowski (Ensemble)
Performer	Michael Mears (Foxlip)
Performer	Itxaso Moreno (Ensemble)
Performer	Al Nedjan (Polegrave)
Performer	Bhasker Patel (Mau's Father)
Performer	Nicholas Rowe (Father)
Performer	Sirine Saba (Cahle)
Performer	Gurpreet Singh (Ensemble)
Performer	Craig Stein (Pilu)
Performer	Captain Roberts (David Sterne)
Performer	Jason Thorpe (Milton)
Performer	Ewart James Walters (Ataba)

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