Evening Standard - London, January 5th, 2004
THE stage is full of strangeness; it reeks of serious magic. His Dark Materials flings down a forceful challenge about organised religion to the teenage audience it mainly addresses, to older freethinkers and those who keep faith in Christianity. Philip Pullman's trilogy of children's novels, with its parallel universes and heavy trip to the land of the dead, its flying witches, talking bears and shrieking harpies, not to mention six-inch-high, poisonbearing midgets astride dragonflies, is compellingly transferred from 1,600 pages of text to six hours' remarkable performance-time on stage. Ni...
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