Nation: The Play
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Following the National Theatre&apos;s success with plays based on novels by well-loved children&apos;s writers like Philip Pulman ( His Dark Materials), Jamila Gavin ( Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo ( War Horse ), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill&apos;s exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett&apos;s witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009. A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau&apos;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&apos;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&apos;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.


Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Reading age: 12 years and up
Page Flip: Enabled
ISBN-13: 978-0552162159
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Print length: 144 pages
Publication date: March 31, 2012
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Lexile measure: 790
Language: English
subtitle: Kindle Edition
author: Terry Pratchett Mark Ravenhill