Playbox Theatre is the first company outside London to produce Philip Pullman's multi-award winning trilogy, His Dark Materials. It will be one of the major highlights of Playbox's 20th anniversary year and the company's biggest ever production.
His Dark Materials is a two-part adaptation by Nicholas Wright of Philip Pullman's hugely successful trilogy of novels: Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and the Amber Spyglass, the latter was the first children's book to win the Whitbread Prize.
This is the epic story of Lyra (played by Olivia Meguer, aged 15) and Will (played by Calum Finlay, also 15) and their quest across worlds and parallel universes to the Land of the Dead. The two leads were chosen from over 300 young people who auditioned and they head a cast of 50 under twenty year olds who play angels, daemons, creatures, souls and spirits in different worlds.
This production is directed by Stewart McGill, Mary King and Emily Jane Quash.
Performance times:
April 5 7.30pm Part 1 April 7 7.30pm Part 2
April 8 3.00pm Part 1 April 8 7.30pm Part 2
April 13 3.00pm Part 1 April 13 7.30pm Part 2
April 15 3.00pm Part 1 April 15 7.30pm Part 2
April 20 3.00pm Part 1 April 20 7.30pm Part 2
April 21 7.30pm Part 1
April 23 3.00pm Part 1 April 23 7.30pm Part 2
Ticket prices:
Both parts: £18.00, Concessions £10.00
One part: £10.50, Concessions £7.50
For more information contact: Judith Cheston 01926 419555 or 01608 661198
His Dark Materials explores the biggest questions of them all - existence, innocence, knowledge, grace, death and, last but by no means least, that of love.