His Dark Materials
His Dark Materials
#0His Dark Materials
Posted: 11/9/04 at 7:05pmdid anyone see the play? was it good?
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#1re: His Dark Materials
Posted: 11/9/04 at 7:26pm
It starts performances again November 20th through April 2005.
His Dark Materials
#2re: His Dark Materials
Posted: 11/9/04 at 7:30pmcooool! thwnks!
JaiMonster
Chorus Member Joined: 10/21/03
#3re: His Dark Materials
Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:07pm
I saw the show when I was in London last Jan. and I did not like it at all. The group I was with enjoyed it a lot. However, I found the technical aspects and lighting (at points) far more interesting then the story. I could never really get lost in the magical world they were trying to create b/c the acting was (to be honest) not good or believable at all. The show (both parts) is also 6 hours and 30min. Needless to say it is long, and drags and loses its focus in many places.
As an audience member you should never be sitting in your seat waiting for the next set change to happen b/c that's the best part of the show! Just my opinion.
Jai
p.s. Caroline-Q-or-Tboo I love you name and quote!
LadyMann
Stand-by Joined: 9/23/03
#4re: His Dark Materials
Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:08pm
i was in london last winter break w/my school for an ARts Abroad thing and i saw it and it was by far the most technically amazing show i have ever seen! i loved every second of it. and i was in suspense for both nights, i even started readign the books the day i came home!
Good luck!
Aimee
LadyMann
Stand-by Joined: 9/23/03
#5re: His Dark Materials
Posted: 11/9/04 at 11:10pm
I still love you though Jai! :)
**Aimee**
#7re: His Dark Materials
Posted: 11/10/04 at 3:49amI love the books! they are among my favourite fantasy books to read...i love Tom Stoppard! i adore R & G are dead, the Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte...so i think these shows should be phenomenal!!!
#8re: His Dark Materials
Posted: 11/10/04 at 5:00pm
The books are sooo totally wonderful...but reading the script, it's not a very good adaptation...it combines events very well, but the stuff that seemed like poetry in the books sorta comes of as trite and silly...the dialouge just isn't very good...i don't know how it looks on stage though...but the script left me feeling down...i'm curious as to what the stoppard connection is here ...
KC
JakeB
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9re: His Dark Materials
Posted: 11/10/04 at 5:18pmHate to disappoint but Tom Stoppard didn't adapt it. Nicholas Wright did.
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