The Witch, the Wardrobe and … a guy named Aslan? Inside the Shaw Festival’s final voyage to Narnia

Michael Therriault plays Mr. Tumnus and Alexandra Gratton plays Lucy in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

It would seem the Shaw Festival has found the back wall of that once-infinite wardrobe.

Since 2018, the festival has made a point of programming whimsical day trips to Narnia – theatrical adaptations of C.S. Lewis’s beloved children’s books. But artistic director Tim Carroll has confirmed that the Shaw’s relationship with Narnia will come to a close this year, with its final staging of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , adapted by Carroll and Selma Dimitrijevic, now playing at the Festival Theatre.

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