There have been many adaptations of C.S. Lewis’s 1951 novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This includes huge stage shows, lavish TV versions and most recently a Hollywood film with a £100m budget.

The scale of the author’s vision is enormous, but even without Hollywood megabucks and heaps of CGI behind it this OFS production made a great attempt at bringing the tale to life.

In scaling down the story to match the small confines of the OFS studio, the creative team leant heavily on voiceovers, blackouts and projections in order to facilitate the switch between the two worlds.

Although this was not ideal, it kept the narrative flowing well enough and scene changes were almost seamless, which was no mean feat.

The cast all delivered good performances, but outstanding were Vicky Coleman as the White Witch and Lucie Cox as Lucy Pevensie.

Coleman trod the line between femme fatale and hysterical dictator extremely well, looking as if she could murder all in sight in a second without so much as staining her fur coat.

Cox must have been at least ten years older than the character she was portraying, but such was the stubbornness and youthful naivety she presented that you instantly forgot the gap in years.

Other notable turns came from Josh Mullett-Sadones and Rachel Nichols as Mr and Mrs Beaver, who added a pleasant comic touch to the play. The only let- down was the script – noble in its intention of condensing Lewis’s world to manageable size and making it family friendly, but unnecessarily repetitive, feeling at times like a deluge of exposition. It was to the cast’s credit that they managed to gain the best from this clunky text and retain the charm of the source material.

The budget may have been smaller, the special effects rather more basic, but the enchantment and wonder of Lewis’s story was kept very much alive.