Pullman's Dark Materials

[yendi]

I had no idea that Britain's National Theatre was staging His Dark Materials.

And I'm amazed at the controversy. Heaven forbid a "children's book" (although I still think it was a series of adult novels with children as protagonists) actually encourages readers to think. Come to think of it, we wouldn't want an adult novel asking readers to think, either, would we?

I'd love to see this on stage. And I'd be ecstatic if the Tom Stoppard film version ever comes to fruition.

Comments

[silme.livejournal.com]

I posted about it months ago! You don't read me anymore. I must buy our tix asap since it's almost all sold out.

[meihua.livejournal.com]

Yeah. My girlfriend's a teacher, and there was a lot of fuss about this in the educational supplement she reads. Seems just as silly to me as it does to you...

Tom Stoppard Does His Dark Materials

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

Will: Do you think I have a daemon?
Lyra: Why does it matter to you?
Will: Are there daemons inside all of the people in my world?
Lyra: Is this a good time to be talking about this?
Will: Maybe not.
Lyra: Statement. One - Love.

[galateadia.livejournal.com]

we bought that series of books in a nice box set for my husbands little brother. he is nearly ten. i hope they weren't too far beyond his reading skill. oh well if they are he can just grow into them. :)
i wonder though if his uber-"what-will-the-neighbors-think"-attitude mother will take them away from him. she told us already that if we bought harry potter for him she would burn them. :|
my mother-in-law the bain or good literature everywhere. the worst part is that here attitude towards it is not out of religious conviction, its out of an attitude of wanting to be part of a group and concerned about not fitting in with the people she goes to church with. *ugh*

[silme.livejournal.com]

We're going on 9 March for Part 1. I guess we'll miss Part 2 since I put off buying tickets so long. But maybe there will be cancellations.

[yendi]

I do read you! I probably even made note of it when you posted, even! I just have very bad memory.

[yendi]

Yeep! Harry Potter is practically The Book of John compared to the Pullman series! If her church is aware of them, I suspect that those books are toast.

[galateadia.livejournal.com]

damn, but on the up side they all don't seem to terribly literate. they only decry potter because of all the media attention it has gotten.
there maybe hope yet. i will ask his sisters.
if she would burn them i will just get him something else and keep the books for myself. i have been wanting to read them anyway. :)

Re: Tom Stoppard Does His Dark Materials

[yendi]

Ha! Well, his movie dialogues are sometimes a bit snappier.

[maneaterlad.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit surprised at this news. Honesty. I attempted to read the first book, "The Golden Compass", but couldn't get through it. It was just too dull and I didn't really care about any of the characters, even if the world it was set in did seem interesting. I can't actually picture it as a movie...

[silme.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was teasing. :) I wouldn't worry about the controvery, considering the entire run is pretty much sold out.

[niku.livejournal.com]

eh. ran into here by accident, but i feel compelled to comment.

The His Dark materials books rule. well and truely rule and, frankly, i defy anyone who want to try burning 'em.

anyway, i missed getting tickets to see the theater adaption by two days >.< grrr. because the only spaces left are (or were, they may have filled by now) two days when i couldn't possibly make it there in order to see it.

on a side note i ended up buying something like twelve copies of the first book at a second-hand sale (jumble sale, car boot sale, that sort of thing yah?) in order to prevent some christian fanatics taking 'em to burn. Yeesh. some people are just so... narrow minded.

Besides, everyone knows the bible burns best. (and it does too o.O; it's something to do with the way 'traditional' style bibles are made apparently)