Following the National Theatres success with plays based on novels by well-loved childrens writers like Philip Pulman (His Dark Materials); Jamila Gavin (Coram Boy) and Michael Morpurgo (War Horse); the National now stages Mark Ravenhills exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchetts 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 Maus 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 others 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 tribes fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age; overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot; as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.
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