FPA Fellowship for Performing Arts presents

SHADOWLANDS
By WILLIAM NICHOLSON

Featuring

DANIEL GERROLL ROBIN ABRAMSON
JOHN C. VENNEMA SEAN GORMLEY DAN KREMER AMY BIZJAK STEPHANIE COZART
DARYLL HEYSHAM JACOB H. KNOLL JOHN LITTLE JACK McCARTHY JACOB MORRELL

Directed by CHRISTA SCOTT-REED
Scenic Design: KELLY JAMES TIGHE
Costume Design: MICHAEL BEVINS
Lighting Design: AARON SPIVEY
Original Music & Sound Design: JOHN FROMADA
Voice & Dialect: CLAUDIA HILL-SPARKS
Casting Director: CAROL ANZEL
Wig, Hair & Makeup Design: TOMMY KURZMAN
Casting Consultant: JUDY HENDERSON, C.S.A.
Marketing & Advertising: THE PEKOE GROUP
Press Relations: MATT ROSS PUBLIC RELATIONS
Production Manager: LEW MEAD
General Management: ARUBA PRODUCTIONS
Stage Manager: KELLY BURNS
Executive Producer: KEN DENISON

Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues)
www.telecharge.com or 212-239-6200
October 17, 2017 – January 7, 2018; Opening Night – 11/1/17

William Nicholson’s SHADOWLANDS is based on the exceptional love story of British novelist/academic/Christian apologist C.S. Lewis (Daniel Gerroll) and Jewish-American poet/divorcee Joy Davidman (Robin Abramson). Lewis finds his stable middle-aged life set asunder when the outspoken Davidman and her son (Jack McCarthy/Jacob Morrell) request a meeting while visiting in Oxford. From this initial meeting, the two find themselves entwined in each other’s lives and eventually fall in love. No sooner than Lewis reluctantly admits his feelings, Davidman is diagnosed with terminal cancer thereby proving his theory that all is not well in God’s kingdom on earth. His formula is love = pain = suffering which then causes (wo)mankind to seek salvation – all a part of the greater plan. As we dwell in the shadows, we seek rescue in the promised sunlight.

The FPA Fellowship for Performing Arts’ production of SHADOWLANDS is exquisite. Constant repartee of wit, philosophy, and spirituality are sprinkled with vulnerability and humor making this unique story a masterpiece of poignancy and love. The acting of Gerroll and Abramson, along with the entire ensemble, is superior; the sets by Kelly James Tighe are sensational; and Director Christa Scott-Reed keeps a word-driven script on track to deliver the message – If you want the love, you have to have the pain. Truly a magnificent theatre experience – don’t miss it.

- Laurie Lawson -