The long-awaited West End transfer of the National Theatre’s 2019 production has arrived at the Duke of York’s Theatre, adapted by Joel Horwood and directed by Katy Rudd. We caught the 2019 adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane at the National Theatre and absolutely adored it – so we were thrilled to see the West End transfer, following a substantial delay due to the pandemic, finally open its doors.
Thankfully, in the interim, it has lost none of its magic – the special effects still impress (we really have no idea how some of the characters move around the stage so quickly), the puppetry is gorgeous, the shapeshifting monsters are actually scary.