National Theatre, London· Picture gallery: images from the productionNothing is more tempting than the apparently impossible. But, although director Nicholas Hytner and his creative team display heroic courage in turning Philip Pullman's epic trilogy into two three-hour plays, they are ultimately overcome by the vastness of the enterprise. There is much to admire in the staging; yet the result, inevitably, is like…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM on July 18, 2018