{"product_id":"9781448109685","title":"Nation: The Play","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the National Theatre's success with plays based on novels by well-loved children's writers like Philip Pulman (\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHis Dark Materials),\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003eJamila Gavin (\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCoram Boy)  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand Michael Morpurgo (\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar Horse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e), the National now stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's witty and challenging adventure story in a major Christmas production for 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transworld Publishers Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143185219824,"sku":"9781448109685","price":16.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448109685_p0.jpg?v=1763829598","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448109685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}