We always recommend individual discretion alongside the age guidance. The production contains moments that some people may find frightening, including references to death. Book tickets and see show information for the National Theatre drama production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane at Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne. This production contains the following physical effects high intensity lighting and strobe, haze and smoke, pyrotechnics, loud sound, and blackouts. If youd like to find out more before you book, please. Plunged into a magical world, their survival depends on their ability to reckon with ancient forces that threaten to destroy everything around them. There is also infrequent mention of death, a depiction of parental abuse, and one depiction of a death. 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… It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly’s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark. Returning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to play. A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out.
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. They are memories hard to believe, waiting at the edge of things.Book Tickets The Ocean at the End of the Laneįrom 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. This is what he remembers, as he sits by the ocean at the end of the lane:Ī dead man on the back seat of the car, and warm milk at the farmhouse.Īn ancient little girl, and an old woman who saw the moon being made.Ī beautiful housekeeper with a monstrous smile.Īnd dark forces woken that were best left undisturbed.
But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul’ Joanne Harris ‘Both a pitch-perfect fantasy and a moving examination of childhood memories and their effects on our adult selves … superb’ The Times
Breathtaking i llustrations by fine artist and illustrator, Elise Hurst. A special illustrated edition of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, the bestselling magical novel from master storyteller Neil Gaiman.
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