The Screwtape Letters

The Parables Company, a local Christian theatre company, is putting up The Screwtape Letters. The available dates and timings are:

27th Feb (Fri) 8pm
28th Feb (Sat) 3pm
28th Feb (Sat) 8pm

Tickets are priced at $32 each (incl. booking fee). Venue's at Jubilee Hall, Raffles Hotel.

I would probably be catching the 28th Feb (Sat) 8pm one. Should anyone be interested be catching it with me, please let me know by 1pm this Sunday (8th Feb). Heard that tickets are running out. (:

Synopsis
The Parables Company is proud to present, for the first time in Singapore, a new stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ classic satire The Screwtape Letters. At turns philosophical, mercurial and witty, the book following a senior demon’s searing correspondence with a greenhorn tempter on assignment here on earth has now become a play that will shift some long-held paradigms on what we think is “evil”.

It is London, 1938, and the personal life of trainee demon Wormwood’s human “Patient” is beginning to mirror world events. As order and sanity begin to crumble under the growing threat of a second Great War, Wormwood tries to flex his untested tempting abilities to lead his Patient unsuspectingly down a path towards Eternal Damnation. But this is not without his vastly more experienced and merciless Uncle Screwtape, Senior Undersecretary of the Department of Tempter Training, critiquing his every move.

C.S. Lewis, author also of the much-loved Chronicles of Narnia series, dedicated The Screwtape Letters, with its dark sense of inverse morality, to his friend J.R.R. Tolkien, and declared he never wrote anything ‘with less enjoyment’. However, these diabolical epistles proved to be an instant hit and remain a bestseller to this day. As we track Wormwood and Screwtape’s surprising stratagems alongside the choices faced by their Patient, the play promises to be an revealing study of evil in all its varying shades, and the fight we may, or may not, choose to put up against it.

Praise for C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters:

‘Sparkling yet truly reverent, in fact a perfect joy’
– Guardian

‘Excellent, hard-hitting, challenging, provoking’
- Observer

The Parables Company is a theatre company driven by Christian values and a mission to tell stories, for all, that answer as many questions as they ask. More information to be found at www.theparablescompany.com


Emmett