His Dark Materials Part I

His Dark Materials takes us on a thrilling journey through worlds familiar and unknown. Adapted by Nicholas Wright from Philip Pullman’s three novels into two full-length plays.

Philip Pullman’s magical story unfolds in a world where Lyra lives in an Oxford very like our own, but strangely different with other people’s souls brought to life as animal companions, known as daemons.

When Lyra overhears her Uncle, Lord Asriel, arguing with the religious authorities about mysterious dust, she embarks on an incredible journey to the Arctic to try and discover the truth. She meets the dangerously enticing Mrs Coulter and learns the secrets of the truth-telling Alethiometer. Along the way she encounters fantastical creatures in parallel worlds.

In an eerie deserted city, Lyra meets Will, who is on the run. Her fate is strangely linked to his own and together they must find the magical knife that can take them to parallel worlds.