![]() ![]() We also felt we had about ninety minutes to tell the story, because as you know it is a very dense story with very complex ideas and emotional choices. So the big idea was to use video, because we felt that was the most efficient way to give the sort of the narrative descriptions of these two places and to clearly establish and visually keep these two places in front of the audience. ![]() You have to make a distinction between Lewis’ vision of the Grey Town and his vision of the outskirts of Heaven enough for the audience to move forward with the conflict in the play, which is whether each character chooses to stay or go back to the Grey Town. Lewis continually asks the provocative question: if given the freedom to choose Heaven or Hell, what would we really do? Are the gates of Hell locked from the inside? How did you take this novel, which contains a lot of narrative, and dramatically adapt it for the stage? In the novel The Great Divorce, a group of characters take a bus trip from Hell to Heaven. ![]() ![]() McLean is also Artistic Director of FPA, a producing organization that creates theater from a Christian worldview that engages a diverse audience. Lewis’ profound novel The Great Divorce, playing at The Pearl Theater, I had the chance to speak with Max McLean, who adapted the novel along with playwright Brian Watkins. After seeing Fellowship for Performing Arts' moving adaptation of C.S. ![]()
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