“Narnia”: Stage Extravaganza
No, Tilda Swinton is not reprising her role as the White Witch in “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.” (The picture above is her in the recent movie.) But the story is about to get a large-scale live-stage version, directed by Rupert Goold. He promises a “rougher, more elemental telling” of CS Lewis‘s classic, using a combination of high-tech multimedia and puppetry. (Julie Taymor meets “War Horse”?) The production will begin in London. Meanwhile, back here in the U.S. of A., Lewis continues to be the favorite author of ultra-conservatives: Rick Santorum was name-checking him just last night in Iowa.
