Terry Pratchett’s “Nation”
The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA will be showing a live performance of Nation, a play produced by the UK’s National Theatre based on the novel by fantasy author Terry Pratchett.
A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers are thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau’s village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from her aristocratic home in Victorian England. Neither speaks the other’s language; somehow they must learn to survive. Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, 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 as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.
Live music, thrilling dance and dazzling puppetry combine to bring to life the surprising and spectacular world of Terry Pratchett’s Nation.
The live broadcast will take place on Saturday, January 30th at 2:00pm; a pre-recorded encore presentation will be shown Monday, February 15th at 2:00pm. To learn more visit http://www.coolidge.org/ntlive.
[Tip from Cheryl at the Coolidge]
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January 18, 2010 10:28 pm
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