A long-time champion of children's theatre, Pullman has penned a new stage version of the classic story to go on show this December. ” My first Aladdin may have been a pantomime, or a Ladybird book, or a story in a child's edition of The Arabian Nights – I simply can't remember, and it doesn't matter. What mattered then was the sequence of wondrous events and the emotional colours they were suffused in: comedy, delight, suspense, fear, and not least that very suspect thing, the exotic, the oriental.” Read more. There's also an interesting article in the Independant about the current mini-revival of British panto, which features some quotes from Pullman – read it here.