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 The Marion E. Wade Center is pleased to bring Anthony Lawton’s performance of The Great Divorce back to Wheaton College on January 25 and 26, 2008, nearly ten years after it debuted here in 1998. Lawton, a Philadelphia actor and playwright, adapted Lewis’s story for the stage and performs this one-man play himself.
Reviewers of The Great Divorce say “Lawton holds us rapt…with his masterful performance” and he “quickly makes us forget that he is only one man” as he portrays the various inhabitants of heaven and hell.
The Great Divorce is one of C.S. Lewis’s most compelling books about the life of the soul. This metaphoric fantasy was published in 1946 and continues to fascinate readers with its Dante-esque depiction of a man who finds himself conducted through hell and heaven while observing the intriguing characters who populate each realm. Like the Divine Comedy, the book addresses, in Dorothy L. Sayers’s words, “the drama of the soul’s choice.”
The two performances of The Great Divorce will take place at Coray Auditorium (campus map) on Wheaton College campus, Friday, January 25, at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, January 26 at 3:30 p.m. Following the Saturday matinee, Mr. Lawton will conduct a talk-back for interested audience members. Tickets cost $12 in advance at the Wade Center (351 E. Lincoln Avenue in Wheaton) or $15 at the door.
The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College is a special library, archives and museum devoted to the works of seven British authors including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.) is a coeducational Christian liberal arts college noted for its rigorous academics and integration of faith and learning. It is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top national liberal arts colleges in the country.
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