C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert

Tonight Jon and I had the opportunity for the all too rare date night! Abigail didn’t have any softball this evening so she was able to hang out with Frankie and not interrupt her routine. 

Over the last several years we’ve been able to see some of Max McLean’s one man plays like Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce, both based on the books written by C.S. Lewis.  McLean is a very gifted actor with an amazing talent for acting.  

We have been looking forward to tonight’s performance since we learned about it a year ago.  The play ran on Broadway for fifteen weeks, which is amazing given it’s Christian theme. 

C.S. Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert is a one-man play about an influential, world-class thinker.  C.S. Lewis (1898–1963), the British author and scholar  best known for his Chronicles of Narnia and revered for his religious writings. Lewis  was a man given as much to rationality and intellectual rigor as he was enchanted by myths and the imagination, he was converted in his thirties from a secular worldview to a deeply personal belief in the incarnated God of Christianity. Max McLean, portrays Lewis and wrote this script from a host of texts written by Lewis.  

For our Tulsa family, be on the watch for McLean’s plays coming to your area.  He should be performing Martin Luthur on Trial in your area in November!  It is the trial for the soul of Martin Luther, and the prosecutor…is the Devil. Luther’s beloved wife Katarina defends him as witnesses including Adolf Hitler, Sigmund Freud, Rabbi Josel, St. Paul, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Pope Francis take the stand!  

When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.  Acts 13:43