![]() ![]() ![]() What the work needed all along was a heavenly assist from adaptors literally on a mission to bring Screwtape to the stage. ![]() Maybe the epistolary style of the piece – a series of letters from Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, “a junior tempter,” in which he tutors the youngster in the dark arts – threw up roadblocks to theatrical adaptation. It has driven the imaginations of readers for nearly 70 years.īut despite its popularity – fueled by the finely drawn, eminently satanic Screwtape, a professional devil and the self-described under-secretary of the department of temptation, and his factotum, Toadpipe, a miserable little demon if ever there was one – the work has been adapted only twice for the stage to date. Set against the background of blitz-torn England back then, washed in the grim, day-to-day reality of a battle against a monstrous human foe, the work proved timeless. The book’s incomparably witty insight into humanity’s bent toward evil and the ability to rise above it has been engaging minds and hearts since it debuted in 1942. Lewis devotees have gone to the devil with “The Screwtape Letters” and come out better for it. ![]()
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