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Carregando... His Dark Materials - The Playde Nicholas Wright, Philip Pullman
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. In 2003, His Dark Materials was turned into a stageplay, starring Anna Maxwell Martin (who has appeared in Doctor Who but I best know from Bleak House). When I found this out, I decided to hunt down the script, as I wanted to know how a 25-year-old could play Lyra and how things like dæmons and armored bears would work on stage. I didn't really get an answer to the latter, but the former was well-addressed: the play is a flashback from the point-of-view of Lyra and Will ten years on. The play was actually done as two two-act plays, shown over subsequent nights, and even at such a length, it still struggles to fit everything into its running time. It positively rockets through the events of the novels at some points, scene changes coming with unrelenting alacrity. This occasionally serves to undercut what's going on; at least as scripted, the discovery of the dæmon-less boy (changed to Billy Costa here, just as the film version would later do) has almost no impact, when in the novels it's one of the most traumatic things I've ever read. The play also struggled to deliver the needed exposition to fit someone into Lyra's world; there are some incredibly awkward lines, especially a part where Lyra walks past a university class learning about dæmons, which is rather like attending a university class where you learn that everyone has hair and girls wear it long. I hate to be the sort of person who cries out "it's different from the book", but I think cutting Mary Malone really does hurt the story a lot; it is Serafina Pekkala who performs the role of the serpent instead, but that totally changes the significance of the act. In the novel, what Will and Lyra do is merely natural, but here it's a calculated act in Lord Asriel's war against the Authority. Indeed, I also have a problem with how the stageplay figures Asriel; at the end of the novel, you realize that he's just as misguided as any of the other characters, as his side has the right idea no more than anyone else's. But here, it seems as though he's on the same side as Lyra and Will, which isn't right at all (even aside from the fact that he murders children!). Of course, it's impossible to judge any stageplay merely from the script, and I still really wish that I could see this in performance, but it's hard to see how this could have worked successfully from what I read here. (Though the excellent cast it had in London would have done a lot to sell it, I'm sure: Anna Maxwell Martin, Russell Tovey, and Timothy Dalton!) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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A two-play dramatisation of Philip Pullman's extraordinary award-winning fantasy trilogy, first seen at the National Theatre. 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. This adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, by Nicholas Wright, was first performed at the National Theatre in London in 2003. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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