IF YOU GO* What: “C.S. Lewis on Stage.”* When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday.* Where: Lee University’s Dixon Center, 1053 Church St., NE, Cleveland, Tenn.* Admission: $10 adults, $5 senior adults (60 and older) and students. Box office open 3-6 p.m. weekdays.* Phone: 423-614-8343.DID YOU KNOW?* Atlanta actor Tom Key is a 1977 honors graduate of the University of Tennessee. He majored in theater arts.* Key is perhaps best-known as the co-author and actor of the off-Broadway musical hit “Cotton Patch Gospel.”
Atlanta actor Tom Key will present his one-man show, “C.S. Lewis on Stage,” on Thursday as part of Lee University’s Presidential Concert Series.
The production, described as both humorous and poignant, is based on the autobiography of the Christian apologist, “Surprised by Joy.” To illuminate main points of Lewis’ spiritual journey, Key sets the one-act play in Lewis’ study and portrays characters from “The Great Divorce,” “The Screwtape Letters,” “The Dark Tower and Other Stories,” quotes his poetry and finishes with correspondences from “Letters to an American Lady.”
This is Key’s second visit to Lee. He played to a full house at the Cleveland, Tenn., campus in 1997.
The show has brought him much critical acclaim in the past two decades as well as an invitation to appear in character at Oxford University by Lewis’ stepson, Douglas Gresham.