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((Short description|1989 play by William Nicholson))

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((More citations needed|date=August 2015))
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| writer     = [[William Nicholson (writer)|William Nicholson]]
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| characters = ((Plainlist|
* [[C.S. Lewis]]
* [[Joy Davidman]]
* [[Warren Lewis]]
* Professor Christopher Riley
* Douglas
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| setting    = Oxford, 1950s
| premiere   = 1989
| place      = Theatre Royal, [[Plymouth]]
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'''''Shadowlands''''' is a play by [[William Nicholson (writer)|William Nicholson]] adapted from his [[Shadowlands (1985 film)|1985 television film]] of the same name, directed by Norman Stone and produced by [[David M. Thompson]] for [[BBC Wales]]. It debuted at the Theatre Royal in [[Plymouth]] on 5 October 1989 before premiering at the [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]] in London on 23 October 1989. The play is about the relationship between [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] [[University don|don]] and author [[C. S. Lewis]] and the American writer [[Joy Davidman|Joy Gresham]].

==Synopsis==
The story follows Lewis as he meets an American fan, [[Joy Davidman|Joy Gresham]], whom he befriends and eventually marries. The story also focuses on his relationship with his brother, [[Warren Lewis]] and deals with his personal struggle: Lewis preaches that one should endure suffering with patience, but finds that the simple answers he had preached no longer apply when Joy becomes afflicted with [[cancer]] and eventually dies.

==Historical casting==
{| class="wikitable" width="80%"
! Character
! 1989 Plymouth cast
! 1989 West End cast
! 1990 Broadway cast
! 2007 West End revival cast
!2019 Chichester cast
|-
! scope="row"| [[Joy Davidman]]
| align="center" colspan="2"| [[Jane Lapotaire]]
| align="center" colspan="1"| [[Jane Alexander]]
| align="center" colspan="1"| [[Janie Dee]]
| align="center" colspan="1"|[[Liz White (actress)|Liz White]]
|-
! scope="row"| [[C.S. Lewis]]
| align="center" colspan="3"| [[Nigel Hawthorne]]
| align="center" colspan="1"| [[Charles Dance]]
| align="center" colspan="1"| [[Hugh Bonneville]]
|-
! scope="row"| [[Warren Lewis]]
| align="center" colspan="2"| [[Geoffrey Toone]]
| align="center" colspan="1"| [[Michael Allinson]]
| align="center" colspan="1"| [[Richard Durden]]
| align="center" colspan="1"| [[Andrew Havill]]
|}

== Production history ==
The play opened at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth on 5 October 1989 before transferring to the [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]] in London on 23 October 1989, running until 8 September 1990. The stage version gave Joy Davidman only one son instead of two. The production was directed by [[Elijah Moshinsky]] and starred [[Nigel Hawthorne]] as Lewis with [[Jane Lapotaire]] as Joy. It won Best Play in the [[Evening Standard Awards]] for 1990. Lapotaire was nominated for the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress]] for her stage performance.

Hawthorne successfully took the role of Lewis to [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]], playing at the [[Brooks Atkinson Theatre]] from November 1990 to April 1991 and again directed by Moshinsky. It was nominated for the [[Tony Award for Best Play]].<ref>((cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/12/theater/review-theater-shadowlands-cs-lewis-and-his-life-s-love.html | title=Review/Theater; 'Shadowlands,' C.S. Lewis and His Life's Love | first=Frank | last=Rich | date=November 12, 1990 | newspaper=[[New York Times]] ))</ref> Hawthorne co-starred in New York, with [[Michael Allinson]] as Warren Lewis and [[Jane Alexander]] as Joy, who was now given her maiden name of [[Joy Davidman]]. Hawthorne won a 1991 Tony award for Best Actor, while Nicholson picked up a nomination for Best Play.

The first major revival of the play, starring [[Charles Dance]] as Lewis and [[Janie Dee]] as Joy, premiered at [[Cambridge Arts Theatre]] on 5 September 2007 before touring the UK. The production, directed by Michael Barker-Carven, transferred to the [[Wyndham's Theatre]] on 3 October 2007 for an eleven-week season before transferring to the [[Novello Theatre]] where it ran from 21 December 2007 to 23 February 2008.

A new production of ''Shadowlands'' at [[Chichester Festival Theatre]] opened on 26 April 2019. The production, which was directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, starred [[Hugh Bonneville]] as Lewis, [[Liz White (actress)|Liz White]] as Joy Gresham and [[Andrew Havill]] as Warren Lewis.

==Quotes==
Joy in the stage version:
<blockquote>"See yourself in the mirror, you're separate from yourself. See the world in the mirror, you're separate from the world. I don't want that separation anymore."</blockquote>

== See also ==
* ''[[A Grief Observed]]'' — Lewis's own chronicle of his reactions following Joy Gresham's death
* ''Shadowlands'' — Lewis's biography by [[Brian Sibley]]
* ''Shadowlands: The True Story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman'' by [[Brian Sibley]], Hodder & Stoughton (new edition 2005) ((ISBN|978-0-340-90865-5))
* ''Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis'' by [[Douglas Gresham]], Macmillan (USA 1988) ((ISBN|0-02-545570-2)).
*  [http://static7.userland.com/ulvs1-b/gems/hastingscommunityt/ShadowlandsStudyGuide.pdf Shadowlands by William Nicholson Study Guide] by Randal L. Kottwitz @ Hastings Community Theatre

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((IBDB show|7906))

((William Nicholson))
((C. S. Lewis))

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