DARK MATERIAL.(The Talk of the Town)(His Dark Materials)(Theater Review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 02-FEB-04

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Unless you reserved a seat in December, even before the reviews came out, the only way you can see the adaptation of Philip Pullman's trilogy "His Dark Materials," at the National Theatre in London this winter, is to stand in line and hope to get one of the thirty seats or sixty spaces for standees that are set aside for sale on the day of the performance. Otherwise, you will have to miss a play that lasts six hours (it can be seen in one sitting, with a dinner break, or on separate days, in three-hour segments); includes witches, angels, armored polar bears, talking dolls who ride dragonflies, evil prelates, a hundred and seventeen scene changes,...

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