His Dark Materials, part 1 -- Olivier Theatre

First thing: it's very long ... Last night's performance ran from just after 7:30 until just before 11pm, with a delay after the interval that might have been the last gasp of the technical problems that led to the cancellation of last week's performances.

This review contains some spoilers for the books, though I have tried to avoid too much detail about the play. ( Read more... )

One-word executive summary: overambitious.

Thanks to Bill Gates for forcing me to reword most of the second half of this. How boring if autosave worked ...