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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...