NATION To Be Broadcast At Town Hall Theater 1/31

A spectacular family production of Terry Pratchett's Nation will be broadcast from the National Theater in London and presented at Middlebury's Town Hall Theater on Sunday, January 31.

Nation is an exhilarating adventure story of survival and self-discovery featuring live music, dance, and extraordinary puppets, suitable for all ages 10 and above. Nation follows the hugely successful broadcasts of Phèdre and All's Well That Ends Well from one of the most famous and accomplished theaters in the world.

The play is set in a parallel world in 1860. Two teenagers are thrown together by a tsunami on a South Pacific island. Neither speaks the other's language. Somehow they must learn to survive.

Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new nation.

"Stunning underwater sequences...and a real sense of life and death dangers that will hold adults and children in thrall," says the Daily Telegraph.

Terry Pratchett is one of the UK's best-selling authors, whose work includes the Discworld series of 36 novels.

Nation will be broadcast at 2 pm on Sunday, January 31. (The broadcast begins with a pre-show "walk-in" at 1:30.) Tickets are $15, and may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, 802 382-9222, at the THT Box Office (Monday-Saturday, Noon-5) and at the door.