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Hop Film: National Theatre Live: The Book of Dust La Belle Sauvage

Nicholas Hytner brings a dazzling wizard's touch to this adaptation of Philip Pullman's fantasy tale.

Sunday, May 8, 2022
4:00pm – 7:00pm
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Films
Registration required. Fee required. Tickets required.

Nearly two decades ago, Nicholas Hytner triumphantly staged Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials at the National Theatre. He returns to that questing world with this version of the first volume in another trilogy, set 12 years earlier than His Dark Materials. Hytner displays the same wizard's touch for turning Pullman's fast, fantasy narratives into theatrical gold. His supremely elegant production is vast, but never unruly, on a set that dazzles but does not swamp the storytelling.

Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the center 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. D: Nicholas Hytner, UK, 2021

 

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