NT Live presents "Nation" at the Palm Theater

From: Feb 11, 2010
To: Feb 11, 2010

NT Live is an exciting initiative to broadcast live performances of plays onto cinema screens worldwide.  The Palm, as the only participating venue on the Western Slope of Colorado, is pleased to be a partner in this programming.

Nation

based on a novel by Terry Pratchett
adapted by Mark Ravenhill
Thursday, February 4th, 7PM (running time 2 hours)

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.
Oh I think you think I want to eat you but – no no no – I am offering you afternoon tea – over there – in one hour. 
Following His Dark Materials, Coram Boy and War Horse, the National stages Mark Ravenhill’s exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s latest witty and challenging adventure story.

There’s no demons, no gods. Just me. And the waves and the sun and birth and death. And there’s no reason for anything. I’m sorry: that’s just the way it seems to me.
Suitable for 10yrs+