Laurence Harwood (top), Kim Gilnett (bottom) at Bee Cottage

This picture was mailed to us by Kate Simcoe, our Kilns Coordinator.  Kim Gilnett (of Seattle Pacific University) is sitting in the foreground, with Laurence Harwood in the back, in front of the Bee Cottage.

Laurence Harwood, C.S. Lewis’s godson, was a lecturer at last year’s Summer Seminar on C.S. Lewis Remembered.  His father, Cecil Harwood, was a close personal friend of Lewis as well as fellow Inkling Owen Barfield.  Harwood and Barfield had often rented a small cottage-Bee Cottage-in Beckley, a few miles from Lewis’s home in the Kilns, and Lewis often visited the place (perhaps while on walking tours though the countryside just like his character Elwin Ransom).  Unfortunately its precise location was lost and remained unknown.

However, after Laurence’s lectures in memory of C.S. Lewis, Kate, Kim, and Laurence decided that searching for the cottage would be a great idea, and a great way to remember Lewis.  After a while, they managed to locate the small house, and found that it looked just as anyone would have expected-the waning summer sun sinking behind it, and the bees buzzing about the lavender plants alongside the stairs.

We have just received news that Jeffery Fiske’s, and Max McLean’s award-winning theatrical production of Lewis’ novel “The Screwtape Letters,” will be presented in Austin this coming February. Running for one day only (February 6th), there will be two performances at 4pm and 8pm. Tickets range from $29.00-$55.00. For more information on this production, please click the link to see more below.

Chicago - THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, the entertaining hit theatre production is being presented by Fellowship for the Performing Arts at the Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress Avenue in Austin, TX on Saturday, February 6 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. only. The play has enjoyed sold-out runs in Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. and now makes its way to Austin.

THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS is a funny, provocative and wickedly witty theatrical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ brilliant novel that explores the theme of spiritual warfare from a demon’s point of view.

Adapted for the stage by Jeffrey Fiske and Max McLean, THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, which runs 90 minutes without intermission, stars award-winning actors Max McLean and Karen Eleanor Wight.  Set in an office in hell, the riveting play follows a senior devil, Screwtape (McLean) and his secretary, Toadpipe (Wight), as they train an apprentice demon, Wormwood, on how to “undermine faith and prevent the formation of virtues” in a young man who has just converted to Christianity. As Screwtape ridicules Wormwood and devilishly dictates his letters to Toadpipe, the fantastical creature transforms into laughingly recognizable figures with whimsical movement and wordless wit.

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