The Ocean at the End of the Lane " adrenaline-powered Neil Gaiman adaptation
National Theatre, LondonGaiman's novel turns into a dynamic and quirky stage spectacular, though at the expense of the more nuanced relationships There are some hair-raising monsters in The Ocean at the End of the Lane " gargantuan spiders that hiss and lunge across the stage, flapping bat-like creatures that threaten to swallow up all of life, and parasitic worms who drill holes into humans and shapeshift out of th…