Have an exclusive look at footage from the five-star UK premiere of Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812. The sung-through musical, based on a 70-page segment of Leo Tolstoy’s War ...

I had never read War and Peace and so I was sent home for three ... Angela Down and finally our Natasha – Morag Hood. Natasha was crucial – she had to age from 15 to 45, an almost impossible ...

or Natasha’s despair after being abandoned by Anatole, are taken from real incidents in Tatyana’s life. 6. War and Peace makes a stand against the death penalty In 1857, Tolstoy witnessed a ...

Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 ... characters from part eight of Tolstoy’s famously mammoth novel War and Peace with the simplicity of kids singing round a campfire.

The UK premiere of Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet ... Inspired by a scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, multi-award-winning Dave Malloy’s dazzling, genre-defying ...

Sheader directs Declan Bennett (Pierre), Chumisa Dornford-May (Countess Natasha Rostova), Daniel ... Inspired by a scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, multi-award-winning Dave Malloy ...

raucous production of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812″ directed by Heidi McKerley. The play, which is based on 70 racy pages of Leo Tolstoy’s dense novel “War and Peace,” was ...