Now there's just Mau, who wears barely anything, a trouserman girl who wears far too much, and an awful lot of big misunderstandings. Mau is on his way home from the Boy's Island.Īnd then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it and bringing a schooner which sails over and through the island rainforest. Calling Young Playwrights: The Nation Needs You. Terry Pratchett Interview: How He Wrote Nation. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. In Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction, ed.
Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 35 (2): 112–130. ‘All I Can Be Is who I Am’: Representing Subjectivity in Terry Pratchett’s Nation.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.Įlaine Claxton’s Nation Video Diary. Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater. Performance, Utopia, and the ‘Utopian Performative’. Reading: Science Fiction Foundation.ĭolan, Jill. Has the Future a Left? The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies 1–26.īutler, Andrew M., Edward James, and Farah Mendlesohn, eds. Watching the production gallery and the nine-part video diary recorded by Elaine Claxton, a member of the cast, both available at the NT website for Nation, one is tempted to think that, indeed, a sense of harmony and solidarity was generated also among the cast of Nation, who in their rehearsals, singing and dancing together, as well collaborating with the director, the composer, the designer and other professionals involved in the production, gradually moved towards a coherent conception and enactment of Nation.īauman, Zygmunt. (‘Performance, Utopia, and the “Utopian Performative”’, 458) When a group of people repeat and revise incremental moments, trying to get them right, to get them to ‘work.’ Anyone who considers herself a theatre person knows when something ‘works’-it’s when the magic of theatre appears, when the pace, the expression, the gesture, the emotion, the light, the sound, the relationship between actor and actor, and actors and spectators, all meld into something alchemical, something nearly perfect in how it communicates in that instance.
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