LEWIS AND TOLKIEN @ ACTORS CO-OP THEATRE COMPANY

Although there are problems with this play, it must also be said that it’s intelligent and attempts to deal with many issues — such as theology and literary criticism — that most modern works don’t ever touch upon. Fans of Shakespeare may well enjoy the erudite wordplay, and a scene in which the two men gleefully trash the Romantic poets will be highly entertaining for the Lit majors in the crowd (like me). As I’m not an expert on the lives of Lewis and Tolkien, I don’t know the level of affection the two men may have borne for each other, but Batali plays it up as if it was almost a secret love affair (to the extent that in my notes I wrote, “Kiss and make up already! Jeez.”) Read more…