'C.S. Lewis On Stage: Further Up & Further In' Closes Sunday at the Wyly Theatre
Fellowship for Performing Arts' one-man journey through Lewis' own words — from the BBC microphones that became Mere Christianity to the wartime desk of The Screwtape Letters — ends its Dallas run today.
One chair, one actor, and the words of C. S. Lewis carry the Wyly Theatre's Sunday. 'C.S. Lewis On Stage: Further Up & Further In,' presented by Fellowship for Performing Arts, plays its final Dallas performances today, Nov. 1, closing a weekend run that CultureMap Dallas put at the top of the city's arts calendar.
The production is built entirely from Lewis' own words, and its questions are the ones his readers argue about still: what convinced Lewis himself of the divinity of Christ; how the BBC handed an Oxford don a wartime audience for the radio talks that became 'Mere Christianity'; and how Hitler and the war pressed on the writing of 'The Screwtape Letters.' From there it follows his thinking on prayer, heaven and the Second Coming into the work the whole world read as children — 'The Chronicles of Narnia.'
It is a quiet counterweight to a loud Dallas Sunday — football at noon in Arlington, altars and concerts across two counties — and it is gone after today. Sunday is the last chance: the run ends with today's performances at the Wyly Theatre in the Dallas Arts District.
