Watch National Theatre Live: The Book of Dust — La Belle Sauvage (2022) Online Free
Two young people and their dæmons, with everything at stake, find themselves at the centre of a terrifying manhunt. In their care is a tiny child called Lyra Belacqua, and in that child lies the fate of the future. And as the waters rise around them, powerful adversaries conspire for mastery of Dust: salvation to some, the source of infinite corruption to others.
Cast
Julie Atherton, Holly Atkins, Wendy Mae Brown, Pip Carter, Samuel Creasey, Ella Dacres, Ayesha Dharker, Olivia Le Andersen, Naomi Frederick, Richard James-Neale, John Light, Dearbhla Molloy
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