NT live - Nation at the QFT

Event date: 30 January 2010 - 1:45pm
Cost: £10
Phone: 028 9097 1097
Location: Queen's Film Theatre, 20 University Square,, Belfast BT7 1PA

NT live - Nation at the QFT

Following on from NT Live's international sell-out
screenings of Phedre with Helen Mirren, this is an exciting opportunity
for Belfast audiences to see a top theatre production direct from
London in an innovative and accessible new way.

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.

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. Live music, thrilling
dance and spectacular puppets combine to bring to life the spectacular
and surprising world of Nation.