Narnia Stage Play to Set up ‘Stakes’ in London

The classic C.S. Lewis tale, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is coming to London in a brand new stage production created by  Rupert Goold, an award winning producer known for his productions of King Lear, Macbeth and Oliver!

Production is being done by the same team that created the modern version of Peter Pan in 2009, and will be performed in the same venue, a giant tent in Kensington Gardens.

Goold expresses his admiration of the C.S. Lewis tale, which has always fascinated him:

“The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe left a huge impression on me as a child, Its combination of fairytale strangeness and mythic spirituality seemed fundamentally English in sensibility, and returning to it now as an adapter and in reading all the stories to my children I also find it strangely Shakespearean too.”

Rupert Goold

But Goold will also bring his own style and vision for the 1950 fantasy novel:

“What I hope to evoke is the power of faith and the danger of tyranny in a rougher, more elemental telling of the story… What I wanted to avoid, which has been the pitfall of other stagings, is four children who you can’t really differentiate between, who seem rather privileged and succeed through right of their blood line.”

The performances will take place in Kensington Gardens sometime in the Summer of 2012.

(Via SFX)