The Great Divorce

Michael R. Klein Theatre
450 7th Street NW Washington

Fellowship for Performing Arts, the company behind the acclaimed hit The Screwtape Letters, brings another of C.S. Lewis' fascinating fantasies to the stage. As in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Great Divorce brims with Lewis' signature wit and imagination as it follows several colorful characters on a bus ride from a suburb in hell to the outskirts of heaven, while exploring the vagaries of human nature and the divide between good and evil. Adapted by Max McLean and Brian Watkins with the blessing of the Lewis estate, this production is part of a national tour and stars Broadway actors Tom Beckett, Christa Scott-Reed and Joel Rainwater from the U.S. run of The Lion King.

Presented by Fellowship for Performing Arts

Thru - Jan 4, 2015

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...This serious theological stuff is packaged into a tidy, brightly designed 90-minute show by the Fellowship for the Performing Arts, the same Christian-oriented New York group that brought Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” to the Lansburgh Theatre in recent seasons. Like that piece, “The Great Divorce,” at Lansburgh through Sunday, is a 1940s Lewis work, in this case refuting the title of William Blake’s late-18th-century “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.”"

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- Nelson Pressley

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

The Great Divorce is a story about the bus ride from Hell – literally: the Redemption Express from the bad section (there is no good section) of “the gray town” to the verdant fields of the much larger and denser Heaven.

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- Tim Treanor

The Great Divorce presented by Fellowship for Performing Arts at Michael R. Klein Theatre