About The Screwtape Letters

 Sold-out in NYC, DC and Chicago!

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UPDATE FALL 2009! The Screwtape Letters will return to Lansburgh Theatre in Washington D. C., Dec. 18 - Jan. 4.  Also confirmed are performances at Lesher Center for the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area, Oct 1 - 3. 

Other dates, yet to be confirmed, are the Herberger Theater Center in Phoenix, Oct 30 - Nov 1; Coral Springs Center for the Arts near Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Nov 13 -15; and Tivoli Auditorium in Chattanooga, TN, Nov 20 - 22.

Check back for confirmations and updates.

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C. S. Lewis’ brilliant novel, The Screwtape Letters, explores the theme of spiritual warfare from a demon’s point of view.  When first published in 1942, it brought immediate fame to a little known Oxford don whose field of study was medieval English literature. It's wit and wisdom have made it one of C. S. Lewis’ most widely read and influential works.

Fellowship for the Performing Arts has adapted and produced this best selling classic into a thoroughly engaging and entertaining ninety minute theatrical production.

“WICKEDLY WITTY...it is one HELL OF A GOOD SHOW! Lewis’ topsy-turvy exercises in inverted moral theology were made to be played with lip-smacking relish. McLean’s plummy, supercilious bass-baritone voice is IDEALLY SUITED to Screwtape…  DELIGHTFULLY REPULSIVE.”
                                                   —Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
                                                                      
“PURE GENIUS! Full of crackling good prose. McLean DOMINATES the stage...he is both CHARMING and GRUESOME, which is exactly how theatergoers who are familiar with the book would want him to be. An OUTSTANDING piece of work.” 
                                                   —John Miller, National Review
                                                                         

In Oct. 2007 opened Off Broadway at Theatre at St. Clement’s in NYC where it played for twelve sold out weeks.  Then it transferred to The Lansburgh Theatre in Washington D. C. where it enjoyed a five week sold-out, standing room run. 

On Oct 2, 2008 The Screwtape Letters began a scheduled six week run  at The Mercury Theatre in Chicago.  Due to overwhelming popular demand it ran for six months closing on April 5, 2009.  The Chicago Tribune called it "the most popular show in the history of the Mercury Theater."  

Set in a strikingly eerie, elegant and austere office in Hell, the play follows an ironic senior devil, Screwtape, who is equal parts charming intellectual, urbane psychologist, and cutthroat psychopath - and his secretary, Toadpipe, a fantastical creature who transforms into laughingly recognizable figures with whimsical movement and wordless wit. 

The mission:  To instruct a novice demon, Wormwood, on the fine art of tempting a young Christian away from “the Enemy” (Screwtape’s name for God) and bring him safely down to the ravenous “our father below.”

Beloved by both audiences and critics alike the stage version of The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis offers an entertaining and provocative theatrical experience that will change the way you think about the influence of demons in your every day life.

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