Shadowlands
Written by William Nicholson
Directed by Joanna Lovell
24 – 29 May 1999
From left to right. John Hart and Jan Pearce.
This West End and Broadway hit is the love story of C.S. Lewis – Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters – and American poet Joy Davidman. Jack Lewis is smug in his convictions about God and His plan for the world until Joy and her young son enter his life and the bewildered theoretician of love in the abstract finally confronts its direct presence.
Cast
C.S. Lewis – John Hart
Major W.H. Lewis – Ian Giles
Professor Christopher Riley – Tony Bate
Rev Harry Harrington – Brian Roberts
Alan Gregg – Phil Pearce
Joy Gresham nee Davidman – Jan Pearce
Douglas – Martin Mehan, David Rowland
Registrar – Graham Frosdick
Doctor – Kevin Chapman
Nurse – Jenny Brookes
Priest – Steve Hunt
Crew
Set Design and Stage Managers – Len Huntley, Billy Brookes
Set Built by – The ‘B’ Team
Properties – Jenny Brookes, Linda Jeffries, Peter Snee
Lights – Alan Hunt
Sound – Graham Frosdick, Steve Hunt
Costumes – Carole Bramall
Prompt – Marge Penny