Performance - The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

About the Event

A fantastical adventure for the whole family!

In Narnia, the land of eternal winter, the White Witch controls all—until a young girl named Lucy arrives. Travel through the enchanted wardrobe with Peter and Lucy for this entertaining and innovative treatment of C.S. Lewis’s classic tale of the triumph of good over evil. Jorge Donoso and Kelly Strandemo star in this two-actor adaptation of this heroic tale of love, faith, courage, and giving.

From the story By C.S. Lewis

Dramatized by le Clanché du Rand

Recommended for ages 5+.

Run Time: 45 minutes with no intermission

CAST

JORGE DONOSO* (he/him)

SEVENTH SEASON

Off-Broadway: At The Wedding (Lincoln Center), Parrots at The Pagoda (Pregones/PRTT), Baby (Out of the Box Theatrics), Twelfth Night (Columbia Stages); 48Hours in… El Bronx (Harlem9/PRTT). Regional: Buyer & Cellar (Weathervane Theatre); Into the Woods (Playmakers Repertory Company); Triassic Parq (Wagon Wheel Arts). Education: MFA Acting, UNC-Chapel Hill.

KELLY STRANDEMO* (she/her)
FIFTH SEASON

Weathervane: What the Constitution Means to Me, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, North Country Christmas, Beautiful, North Country Shakes, The Congresswomen as an actor; The Congresswomen, Primary as a playwright. Kelly has performed on stages from off-Broadway to LA to London. Film credits include CARDIFF, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME, and the upcoming HOLD (also screenwriter). American Legion Scholarship Recipient. Masters in Acting: LAMDA. kellystrandemo.com

CREATIVE TEAM

DIRECTOR

Ethan Paulini (he/him)

TENTH SEASON

In addition to being the Producing Artistic Director of the Weathervane Theatre, Ethan served as the Associate Artistic Director of New York City’s Out of the Box Theatrics. He has national credits as a director, choreographer, actor, writer, and educator. Proud member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers (SDC), Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Actors (SAG/AFTRA), and a member of the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA). Training: Emerson College. More info at ethanpaulini.com and ethancoaches.com.

Author

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a prolific English author and scholar whose writings include literary essays and histories, poems, imaginative fiction and many works on Christian and moral themes. Among his books are The Allegory of Love, The Screwtape Letters, Out of the Silent Planet, Till We Have Faces and the autobiographical Surprised by Joy. Best loved are the seven fairy tales collectively entitled The Chronicles of Narnia in which Lewis created a magical, allegorical world populated by creatures of myth and fantasy and ruled over by Aslan, the Great Lion. Since published in 1950, the first of the chronicles, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been read and reread with delight and deepening understanding by millions of children and adults alike. It has been through over 40 editions and re-printings in English and translated into more than two dozen languages. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has been widely acclaimed as a true modern classic.

Playwright

le Clanché du Rand
 
le Clanché du Rand is what they call a triple talent. She is an actress, a playwright, and a drama therapist whose work is known and respected across the country in all these fields. She has enjoyed a 30-year acting career that includes many Broadway credits, national tours and leading roles in many of the nation’s top regional theaters. Her nine feature film performances, especially in Awakenings (Magda, one of the patients who awoke), Sleepless In Seattle (as Meg Ryan’s mother), and Isn’t She Great, make her face familiar to many.

She is also a widely produced playwright. She has three plays for young people published by Dramatic Publishing Company which have been produced at more than 20 theaters, and four plays produced and toured by Lincoln Center Institute. Her published adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the only children’s play selected to perform at the Sundance Festival in 1999. She is the author and performer of her highly acclaimed one-person show Hysterics which has been performed locally, and in regional theaters and at conferences. Her latest play, Transcendental Wild Oats, which is about Louisa May Alcott’s family, premiered at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley in November 1999.

She is also a drama therapist with a private practice in Ulster County, N.Y., and has published articles in the field. At the University of California in Berkeley she did an M.A. in dramatic art during the turbulent ’60s, and in the milder ’80s she did an M.A. in drama therapy at New York University in Manhattan. The interaction of acting, playwriting, directing and drama therapy has made it possible for du Rand to claim a unique and privileged window into each of these forms of exploration. She has often felt like an anthropologist of the human psyche in its various and rich manifestations in these several worlds which call upon individual revelation. Only in the shared experience with an audience can these revelations find a universal home and personal enrichment.

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