The tortuous tale begins with a middle-aged man returning to his childhood home for his father’s funeral. There was no point in asking the people I was with for their thoughts on it – as the drama’s key character Old Mrs Hempstock (you’ll hear more about her later) said, at one point: “Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.” And in the case of this production, what you think might be the most memorable highlights of your evening in the company of Gaiman’s imagination turned into fantastical theatrical flesh might well turn out not to be the apogees you thought they’d be, today… especially if your dreams had been interrupted by nightmares involving shape-shifting monsters, parasitic worms and evil, supernatural ‘fleas’. To book more than 10 tickets, please contact contact the box office.The morning after the National Theatre’s highly-acclaimed stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 2013 novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane washed up at the Theatre Royal Bath, only one thought dominated my consciousness: wow, what happened on stage last night? Group discounts will be automatically applied when the qualifying number of tickets have been added to your basket.

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Plunged into a magical world, their survival depends on their ability to reckon with ancient forces that threaten to destroy everything around them. He’s transported to his 12th birthday when his remarkable friend Lettie claimed it wasn’t a pond, but an ocean – a place where everything is possible… Returning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to play. This thrilling adventure of fantasy, myth and friendship, is a five-star spectacular which blends magic with memory in a tour-de-force of storytelling that takes audiences on an epic journey to a childhood once forgotten and the darkness that lurks at the very edge of it. ‘The National Theatre at its very best.’ (Daily Telegraph)įrom the imagination of Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of Coraline, Good Omens and The Sandman, comes the National Theatre’s major new stage adaptation of The Ocean at the End of the Lane.

The ocean at the end of the lane