Last February, Philip Pullman attended a lecture given in Oxford by Professor Stephen Hawking on cosmology and our understanding of the origins of the universe. Mr. Pullman was invited to make some remarks after dinner in response, and you can now read his speech online at his website. Read More.
Pullman on Hawking
March 28, 2006
A treasure house for well-thumbed pages
March 25, 2006
Philip Pullman writes in The Times today of his love of libraries and the necessity to preserve them in an increasingly internet dominated age, praising the Love Libraries movement launched this week. “Libraries of every sort are treasure houses. I love them, I cherish them, I use them all the time, I could not bear to live in a society without them.” Read more.
Open Auditions for Lyra to be Held
March 14, 2006
Screen Daily is reporting that open auditions for the part of Lyra in the upcoming His Dark Materials film will be held. The producers say they are looking for a girl “who embodies Lyra's loyalty, bravery and mischievous nature” and say that she need not have any previous acting experience.
Auditions for the role will be taking place solely in England: at Cambridge, Oxford, Kendal and Exeter. The auditions will be held during the first two weeks of this April. A girl between the ages of 9 and 13 is being sought, allaying fears that Lyra's age would be raised for legal or moral reasons.
For those going: We'd like to cover the auditions here on BttS as fully as possible, so if anyone actually going to the auditions is interested, we'd love it if they could tell us of their experiences – how they convinced their parents, what the queue was like and perhaps even taking a few photos. If you are planning to go to the auditions and are interested, then you can email us here. Your stories would be featured here after each of the auditions. Continue reading
Stagecoach York Production of HDM
March 13, 2006
Anna from Stagecaoch Youth Theatre company writes to tell us of the company's stage production of His Dark Materials, on this April. The cast will comprise of over 40 young people, with the youngest playing daemons and children as young as six playing the small Gallivespian spies. The play will be on at the Jospeh Rowntree Theatre in York, England, from the 18th of April to the 22nd. You can read more about the production on the website or Stagecoach's home page.
Pullman at Oxford Literary Festival
March 10, 2006
Philip Pullman will be taking part in a discussion event at the Oxford Literary Festival in a fortnight's time. Science in Fiction will be discussing just that; amongst other topics, how accurate an author should be in a work of fiction – something Pullman has dabbled with in the titular dark matter of His Dark Materials. The event takes place on Saturday 25th March at 12, midday, in the Newman Rooms, St Aldates, opposite Christ Church College, Oxford. Read more on the festival.
Mr. Pullman also makes note of Playbox Theatre's stage dramatisation of HDM, which will be performed next month.
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