Set twelve years before the epic His Dark Materials trilogy, this gripping adaptation revisits Philip Pullman’s fantastical world in which waters are rising and storms are brewing. Two young people and their demons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child named Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. As the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust—salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption for others. Eighteen years after his groundbreaking staging of His Dark Materials at the National Theatre, director Nicholas Hytner returns to Pullman’s parallel universe. Captured live from London’s Bridge Theatre.