The Ocean At The End Of The Lane Review
The Ocean At The End Of The Lane review by Robin Elliott @gohbelfast @OceanOnStage #OceanOnStage
It’s always good to see The National Theatre in Belfast and once again they didn’t disappoint. It was well deserved standing ovations all round at the opening night of the thrilling, magical, fantasy, adventure – The Ocean At The Lane Of The Lane.
Running at Belfast’s Grand Opera House all week this spectacular show from the imagination of Neil Gaiman has to be this year’s must see production.
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Review: Jack Absolute Flies Again, National Theatre
Review: Jack Absolute Flies Again, @nationaltheatre
Dance routines! Ukuleles! Banter about bunting! And so much more, I absolutely adored this.
Richard Bean and Oliver Chris’ reinvention of The Rivals in Jack Absolute Flies Again is a comic masterpiece at the National Theatre
“I do love a man in uniform”
Having had my funny-bone resolutely untickled by One Man, Two Guvnors, I was a little trepidatious to approach Richard Bean’s newest comedy for the National Theatre, co-written with Oliver Chris. But I needn’t have worried as their riff…
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This review for The Ocean at The End of the Lane is very frustrating.
Not that it isn’t detailed, positive, and clear about how wonderful the play is - the review is all those things and more.
But I don’t know what it would take for it to transfer to Broadway, or if that’s even part of the plan.
So frustrating if you’re a New Yorker; otherwise, a brilliant review.
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Memory Lane
THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE
The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Neil Gaiman’s gothic fantasy novel is brought to the stage in this hugely impressive adaptation by Joel Horwood. When a man returns to his childhood home for a funeral, he visits the local pond, which he used to call an ocean; here, he encounters a former neighbour and memories of a wonderful if traumatic…
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Re-review: Jack Absolute Flies Again, National Theatre
I absolutely adore Jack Absolute Flies Again again at the National Theatre, this is one not to miss when it comes to NTLive in October
“I’m a dramatic device!”
I adored the National Theatre’s Jack Absolute Flies Again when I first saw it, to the point where I knew I would have to see it again as I was missing jokes from laughing so hard (particularly where Caroline Quentin’s Mrs Malaprop was…
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