His Dark Materials

Panserborn

Hi all

Was just wondering if anyone knows if the stage adaptation of His Dark Materials trilogy of books by Philip Pullman will be staged in Ireland at any time?

Really want to see it!!!!!!!!!!!

curliq

oh, i didnt know they were doing a stage version! oooh! me want to see! yeh, i haven't heard of it being on anyways.

Panserborn

Was on in London - looks cool!

Check out http://gallery.sraf.org/stage_play for pictures!

monkeyfudge

Wow... that looks simply amazing. They have all the little daemons in there being operated by pupateers and everything.

marshmallow

It's on in the O'Reilly theatre but not 'til March 2007 I'm afraid..

Panserborn

Cool! Thanks!

Where is that theater?

marshmallow

It's Belvedere's theatre on Great Denmark St off Parnell Square.

Panserborn

I'll mark it in my calender.

Thanks for the info!

Piste

The one in the O Reilly theatre is a Belvedere and Other Schools' production, it's not the one from London but apparently they're renting the set.

Hugh Hefner

I'm one of the creative directors for the play and yes we are going to be renting some costumes but apparently they can't lend us the properties. It's annoying. We will be having puppet daemons and things will look kick ass. Also we'll probably be adapting the stage in a certain way. You'll see in good time.

Hef out.

Piste

Kev you said you'd tell me when the Auditions are on, any news yet?

monkeyfudge

Can I audition for the part of the golden monkey?

Panserborn

Hugh Hefner wrote:

On a note of interest we're having a meeting this Saturday to get together the technical team. Of course it's only open to Belvedere students, but I thought somebody might be interested to know that things are certainly moving along.

All sounds cool! Looking forward to seeing it. If you remember, could you PM me when you know the dates it will be on? I know its a long way off yet but with my swiss cheese brain I'll forget ! I'll be able to assemble a gaggle of us from Galway to go and see it.

Are ye sticking to the themes in the books or will ye be watering down the religious aspects a little?

Piste

Damn I wish my school had half the drama (and facilities) you do

marshmallow

Kev, is it true that there's gonna be computer graphics used??

Regards auditions, is Gerry gonna have them the same time as the Opera ones??

marshmallow

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Where are you getting these rumours? Lol.

I've been hearing lotsa stuff about it! Have some friends either in the cast or on stagecrew and they have heard different rumours..

Stonehead

Yeah it's going to be on in our school next year. I dont know if only students and their families can attend though...Haven't actually gone to a play yet, and it's been 4 years.

As for getting the set from London, that's a possibility. I know Mr. Haugh is correlating with some guy from England for the music program.

Gerry was asking me to set up the music program they'll be using [Absynth]. I don't know if he wants me to actually set up the music for the thing though. I missed the meeting a few weeks back. Do you know if it's too late to get into the technical team, Kevin?

I think I heard something about holograms too. . .:rolleyes:

Hugh Hefner

It's never too late to do anything. Just be useful and you should be fine.

Stonehead

Yeah so I saw him in the hallway outside my class talking to Jim so I just asked him and he said yeah. How often does the technical team meet up or whatever?

Hugh Hefner

I honestly don't know much about the technical team. There hasn't been a creative meeting for a few weeks. I suggest you find someone on the technical team and have a chat with them.

Tar.Aldarion

Oh, I really want to see this on stage!
Great news.

The Incredible

I found this site by searching HDM on the interweb. So your honestly saying that the Stage Play is coming to Ireland. No joke?

Can I audition for a part then?:)

Hugh Hefner

Well it's being done by Belvedere College so you're eiher going to have to be in Belvedere or a girl between the age of 16 and 17 (maybe 18).

The Incredible

You have got to be joking!!! :mad:

nah I'm a guy. bloody hell. Goddam.

So is this gonna be big, like famous or just a little private school thing?

Has the President been cast as well?

Hugh Hefner

Well we're not allowed to say much. We want it to be big.