His Dark Media
Twilight Saga
SherlockChronicles.orgbased on the novels by Philip Pullman
adapted by Nicholas Wright
At the Royal National Theatre in London.
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This riveting story unfolds over the course of two plays. See Part I and Part II on separate dates, or enjoy both on the same day in a dazzling double bill.
There are as many worlds as there are possibilities. I toss a coin. It comes down heads. But in another world, it comes down tails. Every time that a choice is made, or a chance is missed, or a fork in a road is taken… a world is born for each of the other things that might have happened. And there, they do.
His Dark Materials takes us on a thrilling journey through worlds familiar and unknown. For Lyra and Will, its two central characters, it’s a coming of age and a transforming spiritual experience. Their great quest demands a savage struggle against the most dangerous of enemies. They encounter fantastical creatures in parallel worlds - rebellious angels, soul-eating spectres, child-catching Gobblers and the armoured bears and witch-clans of the Arctic. Finally, before reaching, perhaps, the republic of heaven, they must visit the land of the dead.
It’s an epic production both in its narrative scope and its staging, involving artists from new technologies as well as old. Nicholas Wright adapts Philip Pullman’s three novels into two big plays for a cast of more than 30.
His Dark Materials is one of the National\'s most ambitious projects, and aims to create an experience as meaningful for 12 year olds as for adults.
Staff
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Set Designer: Giles Cadle
Costume Designer: Jon Morrell
Puppet Designer: Michael Curry
Lighting Designer: Paule Constable
Video Projection Designer:
Thomas Gray for The Gray Circle
Computer Graphics Designer:
Yuri Tanaka for The Gray Circle
Choreographer/Associate Director: Aletta Collins
Music: Jonathan Dove
Music Director: Steve Edis
Fight Director: Terry King
Sound Designer: Paul Groothuis
Cast
Pantalaimon: Samuel Barnett
Lord Boreal: John Carlisle
Will: Dominic Cooper
Serafina Pekkala: Niamh Cusack
Lord Asriel: Timothy Dalton
Farder Coram: Patrick Godfrey
John Faa: Stephen Greif
Billy Costa: Jamie Harding
Mrs Coulter: Patricia Hodge
Doctor Cade: Akbar Kurtha
Jopari/Iofur: Chris Larkin
Tortured Witch/Harpy:Inika Leigh Wright
Salcilia: Helena Lymbery
Fra Pavel/Lee Scoresby: Tim McMullan
Professor Hopcraft: Iain Mitchell
Lyra: Anna Maxwell Martin
Macaw Lady: Helen Murton
Stelmaria: Emily Mytton
Ruta Skadi: Cecilia Noble
Mrs Lonsdale: Katy Odey
Thorold: Nick Sampson
Iorek: Danny Sapani
Ben: Jason Thorpe
Roger: Russell Tovey
Perkins: Daniel Tuite
Astronomy Scholar/Dr West: Andrew Westfield
Brother Jasper: Ben Whishaw
Angelica: Katie Wimpenny
Golden Monkey: Ben Wright
Tony Costa: Richard Youman
All other parts to be played by members of the company