The New Play Project currently has plans to produce my play about C.S. Lewis' conversion to Christianity entitled
Swallow The Sun (Previously
The Reluctant Convert for those who read Nan McCulloch's review of it in her essay "Understandest Thou Me?" published in
Irreantum).
However, they are currently looking for donations to help finance the show. They are a non-profit group, so any donation is tax deductible. If any one can donate ANY amount (whether $10 or a $1000, it would be much appreciated), I encourage you to do so. We're looking for about $3000 total (which is a very modest budget, relatively, so I'm hoping we'll be able to). It's one of my favorite scripts-- a lot of personal feeling went into it.
Upon the stage of a theater can be represented in character, evil and its consequences, good and its happy results and rewards; the weakness and the follies of man, the magnamity of virtue and the greatness of truth. The stage can be made to aid the pulpit in impressing upon the minds of a community an enlightened sense of a virtuous life, also a proper horror of the enormity of sin and a just dread of its consequences. The path of sin with its thorns and pitfalls, its gins and snares can be revealed, and how to sun it (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.243; Bookcraft, 199