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The Screwtape Letters

Through June 6, $35, Lantern Theater Co., St. Stephen's Theater, 923 Ludlow St., 215-829-0395, lanterntheater.org.


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Published: May 19, 2010

Lantern Theater Co. does everyone a favor by reviving actor-playwright Anthony Lawton's (The Foocy) adaptation of The Screwtape Letters, a terrifically dynamic staging that blends C.S. Lewis' clever examination of contemporary Christianity through a middle-management demon, Screwtape, composing memos to minion Wormwood about how to entrap a mortal's soul. Kim Carson replaces Genevieve Perrier as silent messenger Toadpipe, whose deliveries provoke outrageous combats involving everything from tap dancing to fire eating; her eerily sensual performance in InterAct's When We Go Upon the Sea last month shows she can duplicate Perrier's slinky Bond girl moves. Theology has never been so wickedly fun.

Through June 6, $35, Lantern Theater Co., St. Stephen's Theater, 923 Ludlow St., 215-829-0395, lanterntheater.org.

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