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The Screwtape Letters

We went to see this thought-provoking play last night, starring Max McLean as a fiendish Screwtape and Jenny Savage as Toadpipe.

When first published in 1942, The Screwtape Letters brought immediate fame to a little known Oxford don whose field of study was medieval English literature. Over the past sixty years its wit and wisdom has proved to be one of C. S. Lewis most widely read and influential works.

Fellowship for the Performing Arts has secured the rights from the estate of C. S. Lewis to adapt this best selling classic into a theatrical production at Theatre 315, located at 315 W. 47th Street, between 8th and 9th Aves, just two blocks west of Times Square in New York City.

Set in an office in hell, Screwtape, the Undersecretary of the Department of Tempters, and his secretary, Toadpipe, train a new apprentice, Wormwood, on the finer points of undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues. The play follows the amusing and sardonic twists and turns of this senior devil as he instructs his junior tempter on how to interfere in the life of a human. Lewis wrote his novel to give people theological and psychological insight into the reality of temptation.

For more details, visit ScrewtapeOnStage.com. The show has been extended through April 10.

posted by Bhawna Paul @ 6:30 AM