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Joel Rainwater is the narrator and a ghost who is emotionally attached to a lizard he can’t understand why the spirits want to kill it. (There isn’t much hope for her.) Michael Frederic is most memorable as George MacDonald, the Scottish author whose spirit tries to explain the nature of God. Lewis’ The Great Divorce, adapted by Max McLean, December 1229 at Theatre Three at Theatre Row.

Christa Scott-Reed achieves the most distinctly different interpretations, in roles ranging from a serene spirit guide to a ghost who does nothing but grumble. Fellowship for Performing Arts will present C.S. The plot of “The Great Divorce” takes some residents of hell (a gray place where it rains a lot) on a flying-bus trip to heaven, where they learn that being joyful for eternity isn’t that simple. He was an atheist turned Christian apologist, and his theology makes for fascinating if dense intellectualism. Lewis, the 20th-century British scholar best known as the author of “ The Chronicles of Narnia,” took religion very seriously. At least it does after a few puzzling, artistically pretentious early scenes in the Fellowship for Performing Arts’ infinitely thought-provoking production at the Pearl Theater. This all makes sense in “The Great Divorce,” which has been adapted for the stage by Max McLean and Brian Watkins from Lewis’s novella. (“The glory flows into everyone,” a resident explains.) Nobody is famous - or rather, everybody is. Murderers can be friends with their victims. Walking on the grass hurts your feet at first. Lewis’ The Great Divorce September 16-18, 2021 Presented by Fellowship for Performing Arts Buy Tickets An 85-minute theatrical joyride filled with C.S.