“The Great Divorce” at the Fellowship for Performing Arts at the Pearl Theatre Company (Closed Sunday January 3, 2016)
Adapting a novel for the stage comes with considerable risk. The adaptor needs to be as true as possible to the original dense text – especially in the case of C. S. Lewis. The adaptor also has to delineate the characters with honesty and believability and present their conflicts and the plot they drive with the authenticity inherent in the…