That trailer looks awesome! So glad we might get to see more groups across the country do this play.

@the-mad-poet Thank you, I am very excited as well!

Disclaimer: This is NOT the Logos Theatre production. I think it's a school or church group play, and perhaps someone from the school [Memphis Fellowship] wrote the script.

The boy playing Bree absolutely steals the show - he is clearly an experienced and confident actor.

I actually got to be in a stage production at a church of The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe years ago, where I played a wood-nymph. It proved to be a bit of a challenge. We blocked off one of the access to backstage and turned into the wardrobe. Perhaps, it would have helped if we had more backstage.

Lewis didn’t want his books to be made into plays, but I wonder if he would have changed his mind if he were living today.  There are many good stage adaptations of the Narnia stories. I have never attended a Narnia play, but the dramas have been well received by the public and the critics.  I see them as being a good thing for communication of a book even though they aren’t the same thing as the book itself. 🙂

@narnian78 

In all fairness, the Narnia books are not very easy to adapt, especially on stage. The three most challenging I could think of would be The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle.

I wonder if they can make animal costumes look real in plays that have talking animals. They might look like the beaver costumes in the BBC Narnia, which some people have criticized, but I think they are somewhat endearing and likable.  At least the badgers in that series looked somewhat like the real thing, and they might have even worked in a play. Of course I will often like things that other people have considered cheesy and old fashioned. I think the costumes would appeal to children who like something simple and unsophisticated.  🙂

What did Logos theatre do for their talking animals again?

I can't remember any except for Aslan. I think they had the right idea making him somewhat abstract.  

@glenwit they have a mixture of human actors and puppets. They have created remarkable horses, realistic looking and cleverly operated, fur The Horse And His Boy. The two main human characters ride them convincingly! 

@coracle 

I guess having puppets isn’t acceptable in movies, but people do not seem to object to them in plays. The high technology is so important to movie goers. Perhaps it has too much importance.  A play of course is a live performance, and not all of the technology can be included to make it believable.  I like puppets even though some people may think them too artificial. They are an important part of the theater experience.  🙂

The puppet-master and his team at Logos are amazingly skilled. I watched HHB there in 2019 when they first staged it, and totally believed that the horses were real, and their voices were those of the horses!

You might like to follow their preparations on the Logos Theatre facebook site: 

- the first of three (so far) videos about the puppets.

Here is a video I just watched on Facebook. It shows the actors playing Shasta, Aravis and Corin, as they prepare and rehearse.

(please let me know if you can't access it)

It was announced at the Logos Theatre in the last two weeks that the show will be taken up to Washington DC, to play at the theatre in the Museum of the Bible, in January - March 2023.  I've been told 8 weeks with 6 shows a week, which is a huge number of performances.

So if you live anywhere near Washington DC, you might like to keep an eye open for this!

@coracle 

Ooh. Maybe at one point, it will come to the State of Oregon, where I am at.

@jasmine_tarkheena 

I don't think they're taking it anywhere else. This is only the second show I've heard of them taking elsewhere since Logos Theatre opened in 2006.