The Screwtape Letters

  • screwtape.jpgThe Screwtape Letters
  • Adapted by Jeffrey Fiske and Max McLean from a novel by C.S. Lewis
  • Directed by Jeffrey Fiske
  • Produced by the Fellowship for the Performing Arts at the Lansburgh Theatre
  • Reviewed by Tim Treanor

I respectfully recommend that you commit to memory the name of Karen Eleanor Wight. There will be a day, I predict, when every member of the theater-going public will know it, and on that day will use it as a reason to shell out a hundred bucks to see a show. It will be good for you to get in on the ground floor, and to see her before prices get astronomical. I mean no disrespect to the estimable writing team of McLean and Fiske – who are Screwtape and Director, respectively – or to their superb technical staff, but the best reason to see this production is Wight.

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