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The Daemon Puppets
The one question everyone asked when Nicholas Hytner announced that the National Theatre was to stage Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials was: "How are you going to do the daemons?" In February 2004 an audience in the Olivier Theatre got a chance to find out at first hand from two of the puppet makers, Yvonne Stone and Vicky King, and three of the actors who played daemons: Samuel Barnett (Pantalaimon), Emily Mytton (Stelmaria), and Jason Thorpe (the angel Baruch). The event was chaired by Robert Butler author of The Art Of Darkness (Oberon Books 2003), the story of the making of the National Theatre's productions of His Dark Materials. To view the workshop, click on the numbered links on the right. You can go straight to the topic that most interests you, or you can watch it in sequence. | | |
