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The Screwtape Letters
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SHOW INFORMATION

Average of 3 stars from 3 ratings.

CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 8, 2007
Closed Jan 6, 2008

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Fellowship For The Performing Arts presents The Screwtape Letters, by CS Lewis.

After 11 sold out weeks in 2006, C.S. Lewis' brilliant and amusing portrait of spiritual warfare from a demon's point of view returns to the stage in this fascinating production featuring Max McLean as Screwtape. The story unfolds through a series of letters written by Screwtape to a young tempter-in-training known as Wormwood. Together, they plot to compromise the salvation of an unwitting soul--not through spectacular sins, but through daily temptations that can ultimately destroy any hope of living a life of virtue.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Theatre at St. Clement's
423 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Long before Harry Potter, C.S. Lewis gave readers The Screwtape Letters, a series of wildly ironic epistles from the titular Screwtape, a counselor at the Tempters Training College to one of his charges, the unseen Wormwood, a devil-in-the-making. While the morals of the book remain relevant, this stage adaptation by Jeffrey Fiske and Max McLean, now at St. Clement's Church, fails to carry any substantial dramatic weight.

In his letters, Screwtape (played by McLean) advises Wormwood on how to handle his "patient," a human whom Wormwood has been charged with tempting into sin. If Wormwood is successful in his work, the unnamed human will enjoy an afterlife in Hell. Screwtape relishes some [...]


Reviewed by Andy Propst on Nov 9, 2007

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