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 ...

From the celebrated and award-winning composer Dave Malloy comes Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, an electropop opera based on a scandalous slice of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Young and ...

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.

This is the situation in which Tolstoy’s War and Peace characters find themselves ... First staged in 2012 (leading to a Broadway run in 2016), Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 focuses ...

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 and the Great Comet of 1812 ... Dave Malloy's innovative musical treatment of a tiny wedge of Tolstoy's 'War & Peace' has re-surfaced at the structurally revamped Imperial ...

I’d have loved to hear the elevator pitch for Dave Malloy’s massively audacious, massively pretentious musical riff on War and Peace ... mad the whole thing is. Natasha, Pierre blah blah ...