![]() ![]() The strength of Nicholas Hytner's engrossing and assured direction and of Bryony Lavery's concise and smart adaptation, is that they concentrate on that narrative, painting in the bigger picture, without getting too bogged down. ![]() The plot gives Pullman opportunity to range through a great panoply of philosophical debates, but it is at root just a terrific story about two teenagers who save Lyra's life with the help of the sleek canoe named in the title. She is a baby here, haunted by a prophecy of her greatness, that puts her life in danger from the oppressive Magisterium, dedicated to enforcing the strictest rules of religion and stamping out scientific enquiry. The book, La Belle Sauvage, is the first prequel to the more famous His Dark Materials trilogy, and like them deals with the story of Lyra, a child who can change the world. Heather Forster (Asta), Samuel Creasey (Malcolm Polstead) and Ella Dacres (Alice Parslow) – in canoeĪ boy steps forward on an empty stage and introduces himself – and with that simplest of gestures, this adaptation of Philip Pullman's Book of Dust begins. ![]()
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