“The Screwtape Letters,” a theatrical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ 1942 novel about spiritual warfare from a demon’s point of view, will be performed 3 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside.
The play is produced by Fellowship for Performing Arts, a New York City-based production company, and directed by Max McLean, the company’s founder and artistic director.
Brent Harris, Scar in “The Lion King” national tour, stars as Screwtape.
More than 600,000 people have seen the production, which has played in London and in cities across the United States, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Dallas and Washington, D.C., according to a news release.
“The Screwtape Letters” creates a morally inverted universe set in an office in hell, where God is called the “Enemy” and the devil is referred to as “Our Father Below.” The play follows His Abysmal Sublimity, Screwtape, and his creature-demon Toadpipe as they train an apprentice demon, Wormwood, on the art of tempting an unsuspecting human on earth.
Tickets for the Riverside performance are available at fpatheatre.com/tour/tsl-riverside/ and at the box office at the Fox Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Ave., beginning two hours before show time.
The mission of the Fellowship for Performing Arts is to create theater and film from a Christian worldview to engage a diverse audience, according to the news release. It produces coast-to-coast tours in performing arts venues and university theaters.
Max McLean is a recipient of the C.S. Lewis Foundation Award for Lifetime Contributions in Faith and Dramatic Arts.
For information about the Fellowship for Performing Arts, go to fpatheatre.com.
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