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Production:
Shadowlands
by W. Nicholson
Director: Lucy Cruddas
Date: 14th - 17th April ’10
Cast:
CS Lewis - Richard Ellis
Joy Gresham -
Becky Meadows
Alan Gregg / Doctor -
Kyle Preecee
Mr Maurice Oackley / Priest -Mike Melville
Douglas - Deklan Baxter
Registrar / Nurse -
Maureen Melville
Rev. Harry Harmington -
Anthony Jenkins
Prof. Christopher Riley -
Phil Ashby-Crowe
Maj. W H Lewis (Warnie) -
Simon Bugg
Price £6/5 Concessions
Curtain Up: 7:45pm
Set in Oxford, in the 1950s, Shadowlands is a witty, erudite and moving play about the unlikely but true romance between reserved British academic, author and theologian C.S Lewis and outspoken, divorced American poet Joy Gresham.
When they met, Lewis - an Oxford don in his fifties living quietly and contentedly with his brother, Warnie - could not have anticipated how their lives would become entwined. Their marriage of convenience, undertaken to avoid Gresham's deportation, soon grew into a much more profound and significant connection.
Shadowlands shows how their love, and the risk of losing that love, transformed all of Lewis's relationships, not least with God.
