![]() ![]() You can read Joel Horwood’s superlative National Theatre adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 2013 fantasy novel any way you like. ![]() Did the unnamed protagonist of ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ really fight terrible extradimensional monsters as a 12-year-old, accompanied by his irrepressible, otherworldly friend Lettie Hempstock? Or is the much older version of him we meet at the start and end simply using the fantasy stories he loved to process a miserable, lonely, even abusive childhood? Is the ‘snip and stitch’ performed on his memory by Lettie’s unfathomably powerful ‘grandmother’ real? Or just a metaphor for repressed memories? ![]()
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