fellowship for performing arts the great divorce

Joel Rainwater is the narrator and a ghost who is emotionally attached to a lizard he can’t understand why the spirits want to kill it.

(There isn’t much hope for her.) Michael Frederic is most memorable as George MacDonald, the Scottish author whose spirit tries to explain the nature of God. Lewis THE GREAT DIVORCE will be presented at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive in Irvine, from. Lewis’ imaginative The Great Divorce C.S. Christa Scott-Reed achieves the most distinctly different interpretations, in roles ranging from a serene spirit guide to a ghost who does nothing but grumble. Max McLean, Artistic Director of Fellowship for Performing Arts, announces that C.S. CS Lewis The Great Divorce Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts - Take a bus ride to heaven in C.S. The plot of “The Great Divorce” takes some residents of hell (a gray place where it rains a lot) on a flying-bus trip to heaven, where they learn that being joyful for eternity isn’t that simple. He was an atheist turned Christian apologist, and his theology makes for fascinating if dense intellectualism. Lewis, the 20th-century British scholar best known as the author of “ The Chronicles of Narnia,” took religion very seriously. At least it does after a few puzzling, artistically pretentious early scenes in the Fellowship for Performing Arts’ infinitely thought-provoking production at the Pearl Theater. Lewis The Great Divorce - Fellowship for Performing Arts C.S. Whereas The Screwtape Letters is essentially a one-man show, The Great Divorce makes use of two actors (Tom Beckett and Joel Rainwater) and one actress (Christa Scott-Reed) who, over the course of the play, inhabit some 20 rolesthe lightning-fast costume and persona changes left me both dizzy and delighted. This all makes sense in “The Great Divorce,” which has been adapted for the stage by Max McLean and Brian Watkins from Lewis’s novella. (“The glory flows into everyone,” a resident explains.) Nobody is famous - or rather, everybody is. Murderers can be friends with their victims. Walking on the grass hurts your feet at first.

Fellowship for performing arts the great divorce