There are numerous mentions of the His Dark Materials stageplays in “Britain's Secret Theatre” in The Guardian today. Writer Nicholas Wright comments, “it wouldn't be possible to produce shows on this scale any other way. Nick Hytner, the designer and I used the workshops to shape and explore not just the writing of His Dark Materials but how to use puppets, whether people would be invisible, the daemons – we couldn't have done that sitting in a room talking.” Read more.