Its good and bad qualities stem from Bryony Lavery’s pedestrian adaptation of a book which is phenomenally hard to stage. And then they come: the baffling back-stories, the spurious spin-offs, too much damn information…Īt least this fluent and visually beautiful show from Nick Hytner’s Bridge Theatre is neither cynical nor a car crash.
An author creates a parallel world that people love: in Pullman’s case, a genuinely visionary landscape, where your standard teenage quest for experience roams from the spires of Oxford University to the wild, witch-inhabited Arctic night.
Enough already! This dazzling and baffling staging of the first instalment of Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’ follow-up trilogy is yet another example of why prequels should be banned.
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