Terry Pratchett

With its curious mix of panache and piety, Terry Pratchett's tropical fantasy meets a tsunami of abuse from the critics Death, witch-doctors and post-colonial guilt ... Nation at the National Theatre. Photograph: Tristram Kenton On...

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Nation, at the National Theatre in London, is the latest stage adaptation of a work by celebrated British fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett. Set in the 1870s in an alternative reality, the play pitches Daphne, a shipwrecked young...

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Mark Ravenhill's adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Nation will hold adults and children in thrall. Rating: * * * * Published: 9:32AM GMT 25 Nov 2009 Emily Taaffe as Daphne (left) puts a grass skirt over her crinoline and learns to enjoy...

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Nation | Theatre review "Don't read the Terry Pratchett novel," I was urgently advised. "Just go and experience this as a piece of theatre." Which I duly did but I can only report that I found the National's latest attempt to extend the...

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...book authors is the 2006 The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, in which he spoke with GeekDad favorites Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman. Funny Business includes interviews with Dick King-Smith (Babe: The...

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...features a lot of fluff, but it's not all nonsense. Rating: * * * In the week that Nation - Mark Ravenhill's adaptation of the Terry Pratchett novel - opens at the National Theatre, it's intriguing to come across a story which, albeit...

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But I gave it a whirl: this is Terry Pratchett, after all. I'd read his grocery lists. A word about Pratchett for the uninitiated. Terry Pratchett is an incredibly funny, warmly human British fantasy (mostly) novelist. He writes at an...

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...challenging Christmas shows? At the helm: Melly Still, director of the NT's adaptation of Pratchett's Nation Photo: CLARA MOLDEN Are you a Terry Pratchett person? Are you conversant with the zany landscape and inhabitants of Discworld,...

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Nation, Terry Pratchett's latest novel for younger readers, starts promisingly: with the creation myth of an island people in the South Pacific - sorry, in Pratchett's alternative world, that's the South Pelagic Ocean. Then Mau, a boy of...

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...Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart from the University of Warwick, he has written three Science of Discworld books. Pratchett admits he doesn't have the right kind of mind to be a scientist, but relishes tinkering with science. In Nation, his...

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