Tuesday, October 15, 2024

TOLKIEN AND LEWIS PLAY

So, the Taproot Theatre, a local theatrical group we enjoy getting to occasionally, has announced they'll be staging a  Tolkien / Lewis themed play, called simply LEWIS AND TOLKIEN. 

Written by Dean Batoli, whose work I don't know (apparently BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER scripts figured in largely), it imagines a chance meeting between CSL and JRRT at some point after the Inklings towards the end of Lewis's life. Sounds like it has potential. At any rate, I plan to go, so here's hoping it's good.

DATE: January 22nd through February 22nd, 2025

THE SEASON: just to give a better idea of what Taproot's like, the four other plays that make up this season are 

A RAISIN IN THE SUN (not my kind of thing), 

The Patsy Cline Story (likewise), 

MURDER ON THE LINKS (Poirot stories can be fun, but I'm doubtfull about their choice of a murder mystery play set on a golf course), and 

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (which I've seen more than once, and read several more times; the problem here is deciding how many times I want to see the same play). 

I guess we'll find out

--John R








3 comments:

  1. And here's a better link, courtesy of Janice
    https://taproottheatre.org/shows/2025/lewis-and-tolkien/

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  2. And here's the first of two reviews, courtesy of W & C

    https://glamgical.com/theatre-review-lewis-and-tolkien/

    And here's the second of those two reviews, also courtesy of W & C, to whom much thanks

    https://www.discoverhollywood.com/Discover-Hollywood-Blog/2023/October/LEWIS-AND-TOLKIEN-World-Premiere-at-Actors-Co-op.aspx

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  3. We last produced Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" about 15 years ago, and a few years later we also produced "Clybourne Park," the 2010 sequel or prequel to "Raisin" by Bruce Norris. I like them both. "Raisin" is more lively than its reputation might suggest. We also twice hired the late John Fiedler, who had played Karl Lindner in the original 1959 Broadway production of "Raisin" and the 1961 film adaptation. He appeared in our productions of Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" and Reginald Rose's "12 Angry Men." He was the oldest member in our cast of the latter, but he'd been the youngest member in the cast of the 1957 movie version.

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