Dark Thoughts
Mar. 26th, 2004 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
