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Saw the His Dark Materials production that was sold out at the National a few years ago (well, the touring version, which has less staging FX, apparently); pleased to have finally seen it, well acted, the daemons worked spectacularly well (the polar bears even better), compressing three books into two plays makes the first half very full of characters and plot, (even with Mary Malone and Lee Scoresby's subplots left out) but the second half had more air, the ending felt more satisfying than in the books but a bit confusing, and I've talked about it so much with the people I saw it with that I'm sort of out of opinions. We all enjoyed it, though. (And I may reread to get some of the setting and atmosphere that you can't convey with just a stage and a few props.)