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National Theatre: Olivier
NATION by Terry Pratchett
Adapted for the stage by Mark Ravenhill
Director: Melly Still
Director: Melly Still
Set Design: Melly Still with Mark Friend
Costume Design: Dinah Collin
Lighting Design: Paul Anderson
Projection Design: Jon Driscoll & Gemma Carrington
Composer: Adrian Sutton
Music Director: Martin Lowe
Fights: Paul Benzing
Great parallels here with NEVERLAND:
- Island Stories
- Creation Myths
- Disappearing Worlds
- Dolphins & Mermaids
- Sharks & Crocodiles
- Burial Rites & Death
- Rhymes & Song
- Ritual & Ceremony
- Art & Play
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Photo: Johan Persson
Emily Taaffe as Daphne in NATION
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Shaftesbury Theatre![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjct5i6gzAtw38IVjEle29azTsz6K4y91x10WYJlHFbntNsU3zkIZdOxhf6xcxcpeR8Aykzrdpx7D4S6loIwmOOp4bOYoee2SY9pKo7y8QDxHjbaiqr81lqxx-027Oo-DmIaG-kCcqLXaw/s320/hairspray.jpg)
Director: Jack O'Brien
Choreography: Jerry Mitchell
Music: Marc Shaiman
Lyrics: Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman
The structure and construction of Musical Theatre: wow!
Go see: Chloe Hart as Tracy Turnblad...
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NEVERLAND again:
Thought it worth a 'retrospective' cross-reference with our production of PETER PAN at South Hill Park, Bracknell: it was!
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Re-visitng the 1980's, sixth form friends, reminiscences and the films we went back to the cinema to see a dozen times..
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Book: Mark O'Donnell & Thomas Meehan
Set Design: David Rockwell
Costume Design: William Ivey Long
Lighting Design: Kenneth Posner
Sound Design: Steve C. Kennedy
Wigs & Hair Design: Paul Huntley
Producers: Stage Entertainment UK Ltd
The structure and construction of Musical Theatre: wow!
Great fun...
Go see: Chloe Hart as Tracy Turnblad...
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Thought it worth a 'retrospective' cross-reference with our production of PETER PAN at South Hill Park, Bracknell: it was!
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Photo: © 1984 Columbia Pictures Industries
Re-visitng the 1980's, sixth form friends, reminiscences and the films we went back to the cinema to see a dozen times..
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Image: © 2009 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Did everyone see this on the last day of the
UNITED NATIONS
Climate Change Conference
7 - 18 December 2009 ?
A preview at the summit might have proved useful...
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