Ruth Leon recommends…
Ruth Leon recommendsThe Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage
I’ve never been very big on fantasy but Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy was an exception. Directed with exquisite care by Nicholas Hytner when he was Director of the National Theatre, it was a journey into another world, one whose characters and situations seemed super-real and worthy of our complete attention. Now, the National has released The Book of Dust -La Belle Sauvage,a new path into that world.
Set twelve years before his epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing.
Two young people and their daemons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.
Eighteen years after his ground breaking production of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe.
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