Dark Thoughts
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gervase_fenThese are some of the memories that I trust will stay with me for years to come.
*Pantalaimon's agonising cries as Lyra forces herself away from him and walks in to the land of the dead. Just how much anguish can be loaded in to the word "No"?
*An earlier Pan moment, when he has the premonition about the contents of the experimental station at Bolvangar. I've never been part of an audience in the grip of a collective feeling of dread before.
*Anna Maxwell Martin as Lyra - capricious, exuberant, resourceful, captivating. And she's the focus of the whole six hours; when she's not on stage (e.g. drugged during Part Two) we're desperately waiting for her to return.
*The sound of Mrs Coulter breaking the fingers of the witch.
*The small bits of business with the daemons - Pan's agitated tail swishing, Hester blowing the smoke from Lee Scoreby's rifle shot.
*Lyra and Will in the land of the dead - a fifty minute stand alone play.
*The first scene change, when the scope and complexity of the drum revolve becomes clear.
*Jonathan Dove's beguiling harp and string led music. It was telling that everyone in the audience waited for the last notes of the final musical score to fade away into silence before the cheers began.
*Pantalaimon's agonising cries as Lyra forces herself away from him and walks in to the land of the dead. Just how much anguish can be loaded in to the word "No"?
*An earlier Pan moment, when he has the premonition about the contents of the experimental station at Bolvangar. I've never been part of an audience in the grip of a collective feeling of dread before.
*Anna Maxwell Martin as Lyra - capricious, exuberant, resourceful, captivating. And she's the focus of the whole six hours; when she's not on stage (e.g. drugged during Part Two) we're desperately waiting for her to return.
*The sound of Mrs Coulter breaking the fingers of the witch.
*The small bits of business with the daemons - Pan's agitated tail swishing, Hester blowing the smoke from Lee Scoreby's rifle shot.
*Lyra and Will in the land of the dead - a fifty minute stand alone play.
*The first scene change, when the scope and complexity of the drum revolve becomes clear.
*Jonathan Dove's beguiling harp and string led music. It was telling that everyone in the audience waited for the last notes of the final musical score to fade away into silence before the cheers began.
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Date: 2004-03-26 02:02 pm (UTC)*The first poignant scene as Will and Lyra talk to each other, in each other's presence and absence at the same time
*The first time that Pan is attacked and Lyra screams and falls to the floor, for if anyone in the audience thought that Pan was some kind of pet, their assumptions were rudely shattered then; this scene prepared the way for
*The near-incision of Lyra and Pan, which is truly horrible
*The dance of the witches as they list the charges against the Church (the parallel passage in The Subtle Knife makes a more complex argument against closed belief systems in general, but the simplifed version is more powerful theatrically)
*Lord Roke giving his farewell salute, for which alone the technical crew deserved their bow
*Roger's death making the betrayal of Lyra by Lord Asriel concrete
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Date: 2004-03-26 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-26 03:30 pm (UTC)"Philip Pullman considers that previously unrecognised daemons have appeared in portraits throughout the ages. Some are shown, here and on following pages... "