The Ocean at the End of the Lane tour tickets, dates and venues

The Ocean at the End of the Lane is hitting the road in 2022 and 2023 direct from the West End – here’s all you need to know.

From 2022 The Ocean at the End of the Lane tour tickets to all the upcoming dates and venues, this is your guide to the show on the road.

The National Theatre’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel is a thrilling adventure of fantasy, myth and friendship, 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 Ocean at the End of the Lane 2022 tour dates and venues

Dates for the The Ocean at the End of the Lane UK tour begin this December in Salford before touring across the UK throughout 2023.

Returning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to play. 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…

Plunged into a magical world, their survival depends on their ability to reckon with ancient forces that threaten to destroy everything around them.

Meet the team!

Directed by Katy Rudd (Camp Siegfried) and adapted by Joel Horwood (Skins, I Want My Hat Back), with set design by Fly Davis and costume and puppet design by Samuel Wyer. Movement direction is by Steven Hoggett, composition by Jherek Bischoff, lighting design is by Paule Constable, sound design by Ian Dickinson for Autograph, magic and illusions direction and design by Jamie Harrison  and puppetry direction by Finn Caldwell. 

Casting, to be revealed, is by Sarah Hughes CDG.

Writer Neil Gaiman said: “The Ocean at the End of the Lane is about memory, magic, family. It’s about who you were and who you are. It’s not like anything else I’ve ever been involved in. It’s not like anything else you’ll ever see at the theatre. The Ocean at the End of the Lane has its own theatrical magic.

“It’s why happy people tell you that they cried while watching it, it’s why it becomes a dreamlike experience in memory, it gets bigger the further inside you follow it. Like a duck pond that contains an ocean that holds the universe…”