The Book of Dust is effectively a prequel, set 12 years earlier where the totemic Lyra Belacqua has just been born. From genial pubs to haunting convent halls (those illuminated habits!) to raging floodwaters, we’re joyously submerged in the thrills and terrors of this parallel universe once again.īryony Lavery’s adaptation has the unenviable task of making a satisfactory play out of the first part of a new trilogy, which does presume a certain amount of knowledge of that first trilogy. The Bridge Theatre may not be blessed with the revelatory wonder of the Olivier’s drum revolve but with co-directors Emily Burns and James Cousins, Hytner has conjured something special with Barnaby Dixon’s austerely beautiful puppety, Luke Hall’s highly effective video work and designer Bob Crowley.

Fortunately, The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage finds its own kind of festive magic to weave over audiences this Christmas.

Nicholas Hytner’s stunning reworking of the world of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials for the National Theatre remains one of my all-time top theatrical experiences, so the news that he would be returning to that universe filled me with excitement and trepidation in equal measure. “I need to know why the baby is so important” Our NT Live screenings are a collaboration between LU Arts and Flix, student-run cinema.Nicholas Hytner returns to the world of Philip Pullman with an impressively atmospheric take on The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage at the Bridge Theatre Subject to availability, cash and card payments can be taken on the door. Broadcast live from London’s Bridge Theatre.

And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.Įighteen years after his ground breaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt.

Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing. This gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which which waters are rising and storms are brewing.īy Philip Pullman, adapted by Bryony Lavery

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