{"id":120611,"date":"2019-11-26T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/26\/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-review-magical-escape-from-the-perils-of-war\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T00:00:06","slug":"the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-review-magical-escape-from-the-perils-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=120611","title":{"rendered":"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe review \u2013 magical escape from the perils of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bridge theatre, LondonAslan is more substitute Churchill than surrogate Christ in Sally Cookson\u2019s brilliantly inventive production of CS Lewis\u2019s wartime fableThe popularity of CS Lewis\u2019s 1950 novel rests on the fact that it has the many-sidedness of myth. The story of four children who stumble into the kingdom of Narnia, where it has been winter for a century, can be seen in multiple ways. In Sally Cookson\u2019s brilliantly inventive production \u2013 first seen at Leeds Playhouse two years ago \u2013 it becomes about a family of evacuees confronting the perils of wartime.The point is made from the start, with the audience handed green identity labels, the onstage musicians playing a 1940s medley and a model train, bearing the evacuated Pevensie family, snaking its way through the countryside. But the wartime theme doesn\u2019t stop there. The animals in Narnia sport camouflage gear, communicate through code \u2013 \u201cFoxtrot to Badger\u201d \u2013 and Aslan is not just a heroic lion but, in Wil Johnson\u2019s fine performance, an inspirational leader. At one point, he announces \u201cthere will be blood, there will be tears\u201d and he might have added sweat and toil, since he is more a substitute Churchill than a surrogate Christ. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/nov\/26\/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-review-magical-escape-from-the-perils-of-war\" target=\"_blank\">The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe review \u2013 magical escape from the perils of war<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridge theatre, LondonAslan is more substitute Churchill than surrogate Christ in Sally Cookson\u2019s brilliantly inventive production of CS Lewis\u2019s wartime fableThe popularity of CS Lewis\u2019s 1950 novel rests on the fact that it has the many-sidedness of myth. The story of four children who stumble into the kingdom of Narnia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}