On November 16, I attended the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe Theatre performance at UNCG. Although, this fairy tail was meant to tell the story of Christ’s crucifixion, I see the story in a different way.
I really like this story of four children finding this secret world, Narnia, in the wardrobe and rescuing it from the reign of an evil witch. The Wardrobe allowed these children to find an escape from the war and all the bad things that went with it. They were separated from their parents and sent to live with a professor in an unfamiliar place. Being in the land of Narnia provided some relief to these four children; they got to fight and defeat something outside of their real lives.
Not only were the characters entering into this new and adventurous world of Narnia, but also us, the audience, was able to escape from the stressful events in our own lives to join the characters in their journey. The children in the end of the story, step out of the wardrobe to find that after being in Narnia for 15 years, they are at the same point in time that they were in when they entered. The audience, when they step out of the theatre performance, after watching this magical story for hours, feel like they are at the same point in time as they were when they entered the theatre. The story of the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe is about giving children and adults an escape, if not only for an hour or two, from the hardship and stressful events in real life.
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