Shadowlands
- Full Length Play, Drama, 1950s
- 7M, 2F
- ISBN: 9780573018947
This West End and Broadway hit is the love story of C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Davidman.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: 1950s
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Accolades:
- WINNER! London Evening Standard Award for Best New Play (1990)
Jack Lewis is smug in his convictions about God and His plan for the world until Joy and her young son enter his life and the bewildered theoretician of love in the abstract finally confronts its direct presence.
REVIEWS:
"Engrossing, entertaining... literate, well crafted and discreetly brilliant."
New York Post
"I loved it."
WNBC-TV
"Poignant, powerful, intelligent theatre, witty and extraordinarily written."
WABC-TV
Shadowlands was originally presented at The Theatre Royal, Plymouth, on 5th October, 1989. The play was first presented in London at the Queen's Theatre, on 23rd October, 1989.
Shadowlands opened on 11 November, 1990 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City.
Characters
- Casting: 7M, 2F
- Casting Notes: Plus 1 Boy.
JOY GRESHAM - an American in her late thirties
MAJOR WARNIE LEWIS - Lewis's bachelor brother
CHRISTOPHER RILEY - an Oxford don
HARRY HARRINGTON - an Oxford chaplain
DOUGLAS - Joy's eight-year-old son
ALAN GREGG / DOCTOR
REGISTRAR / NURSE
PRIEST / WAITER / DR. MAURICE OAKLEY / CLERK
Available Material
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This West End and Broadway hit is the love story of C.S. Lewis -- Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters -- and American poet Joy Davidman. |
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