Children’s classic will transport you all the way to Narnia

Nov 18 2009 by Will Harris, Crewe Chronicle

AUDIENCE are about to get more magic than you can shake a lamppost at as a festive production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes to life at the New Vic Theatre.

The Newcastle-under-Lyme venue will be transformed to become filled with fairytale creatures and snowy winter wonderlands.

C S Lewis’s classic story The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is being faithfully retold in a new dramatisation by New Vic artistic director, Theresa Heskins, which will enchant children and whisk parents and grandparents back to their childhoods.

Four children step through a mysterious wardrobe and find themselves in a bewitching fairytale world. But the land lies under the power of the White Witch who has cast a terrible spell - it is forever winter, but never Christmas.

With Mr Tumnus, Mr and Mrs Beaver and a host of forest friends, Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter join the great lion, Aslan, to battle the White Witch.

Written specially for the theatre’s unique in the round space, the adaptation has been personally given the thumbs up by the writer’s estate.

Theresa said: “We’re incredibly lucky. It’s a fantastically popular story that has charmed generations of children.

“To get the seal of approval from C S Lewis’s estate is a really special thing.”

The show runs from Saturday until January 23 next year. Shows start at 7.30pm and tickets are £9.50-£17.50, to book phone the box office on 01782 717962.