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NATION
Friday, February 5, 2010, 7:30 PM
McGUIRE PROSCENIUM
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. NATION will be filmed live at the National Theatre in London on January 30 and broadcast by satellite to cinemas worldwide. The production is the third play in the pilot season of NT Live, the National’s ground-breaking initiative which launched in June with the hugely successful broadcast of PHEDRE with Helen Mirren, which was seen by 50,000 people in 19 countries around the globe.
Friday, February 5, 2010, 7:30 PM
McGUIRE PROSCENIUM
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. NATION will be filmed live at the National Theatre in London on January 30 and broadcast by satellite to cinemas worldwide. The production is the third play in the pilot season of NT Live, the National’s ground-breaking initiative which launched in June with the hugely successful broadcast of PHEDRE with Helen Mirren, which was seen by 50,000 people in 19 countries around the globe.
Nation is novel by Terry Pratchett so I would have been interested in seeing this for that reason alone, but I'm also excited by the idea of watching a play in London from a theater in Minneapolis. I'm really looking forward to this.
Carol