Play Adaptation of CS Lewis' The Screwtape Letters Tours US

A theater adaptation of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters (1942), a book written from the perspective of a senior demon teaching a neophyte demon how to tempt a human, is touring the United States. Max McLean, who directed and adapted the play along with Jeff Fiske, spoke Thursday with The Christian Post about what it's like to play Screwtape on stage, and how last week's shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., has influenced his performance.

McLean said he was "blown away by" The Screwtape Letters the first time he read it in his early 20s, "because I didn't think of devils in a personal way and [Lewis] made it so real. I found it to be very profound."

Fiske first approached McLean with the idea for the play, telling him that he would make a really good Screwtape.

"I don't know if that was a compliment or not," McLean joked, but was intrigued by the idea.

Screwtape's apprentice, Wormwood, who is also his nephew, is never seen in the play. Rather, the audience watches Screwtape as he reads letters from Wormwood detailing his progress at tempting his "patient."

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