Christa Scott-Reed directs with surety, ably meeting the challenges of a technology in which only one actor appears in a frame.Įach traveler meets a spirit guide who offers them eternal happiness if they’ll abandon their tragic flaw. Joel Rainwater gives terrific work in the lead role of the “Narrator.” The other actors, as well, are very good, Jonathan Hadley, Carol Halstead, and Tom Souhrada dividing the other 19 roles among themselves. The play opens with Lewis’s opening lines: “I seemed to be standing in a bus queue….”įour actors play all 20 roles. Lewis, having presented a play about him and an adaptation of “The Screwtape Letters.” The technique worked quite well, given its obvious limitations.įPA presents intelligent, inquiring theater from a Christian perspective, and they’re partial to C.S. Using green screen technology, the actors were videoed separately and these videos combined with background to form the finished piece. Max McLean, artistic director of the OOB theater Fellowship for Performing Arts, adapted the novel into a play for his company several years ago and FPA recently presented it as an online event. Most of the travelers decline the offer, wedded to their tragic flaw. The title derives from William Blake’s 1793 poem “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” It presents us with a set of travelers who take a bus from Hell to the outskirts of heaven and are offered the opportunity to enter heaven if they repent-that is, acknowledge their error. Lewis wrote The Great Divorce, a novel, in 1945.
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