Hs darkest materials - part two
Continue in the review off the National Theatre's production of Philip Pullman's “His Dark Materials”. This review covers the second play which takes in the remaining part of The Subtle Knife, and the concluding book in the trilogy, The Amber Spyglass
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I love your captions.
I may need one of those bears. Well maybe not. The awesome deer thing needs plenty of room.
That poem is stunning. I really love it. thank you very much for sharing that.
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You know when I was watching the play I thought that Mrs. Coulter was blonde too. With the previous years production they had Patricia Hodge playing that part, she's blonde and usually has very posh roles. But I checked "Northern Lights" yesterday and Mrs Coulter is described as having black hair.
It might be worthwhile having a bear in the kitchen. They're a dab hand at opening tin cans.
As I said, the poem is on the subway wall between Waterloo station and the London Imax cinema. The verses are on both sides of the wall and staggered with the steps so that you can read it as you descend step by step (as the poem starts) or, if you're going the other way, as you climb as from the blackened earth. They have the "I dream of a green garden..." stanza on a pillar just as you descend into the subway and in my mind it seemed to sort of "fit" Lyra and Will sitting in their Botanic gardens. Anyway, it makes a change from the badly spelt obscene graffiti that you usually find scrawled on walls.
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