
THEATRE REVIEW: Philip Pullman’s The Book Of Dust – La Belle Sauvage at Bridge Theatre
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2
WHEN?: Thursday 2 December 2021, opens 7 December booking until 26 February 2022
RUNTIME: 150 minutes (including a 20-minute interval)
The best thing about this prequel to His Dark Materials based on the 2017 book is the theatre debut of Samuel Creasey (pictured above right) who reminds of a young James Corden in the leading role as 12-year-old Malcolm Polstead.
- Read on for reasons including how climate change fears and Storm Arwen make the setting very now