William Nicholson’s take on CS Lewis’s marriage to an American divorcee should have you in bits but it fails to feel as eviscerating as it should The drama of love and loss in Shadowlands has played ...

There’s comfort in an old-fashioned, well-made play and when Hugh Bonneville steps forward at the beginning of Shadowlands and starts to speak, there’s a sense of reassurance, of a good story about to ...

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Nigel Hawthorne won.

“If the new Archbishop of Canterbury needs a spot of encouragement in these turbulent times,” said Clive Davis in The Times, “she might take comfort in the fact that an old-school, well-made play ...

At the end of CS Lewis’s classic Narnia series [spoiler alert], the children find out that they’ve died in the real world – and that the magical land they’ve been having such wonderful adventures in ...

Exploration of literary giant CS Lewis’ late-life romance with Joy Davidman is charming, but lacks bite There’s something endearing about watching a man of CS Lewis’ seniority, rigorous intellect and ...

William Nicholson’s play about C.S. Lewis’s late-in-life romance is revived at the Aldwych with assured performances The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through ...

Key to the piece is its portrait of the slow dissolution of the writer’s strong Christian certainties. It opens with Lewis (Hugh Bonneville) in full flow, giving his standard lecture on God’s love for ...

A star rating of 4 out of 5. Shadowlands at the Aldwych Theatre, written by William Nicholson and directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, tells the story of great English author CS Lewis and his relationship ...

The West End production of William Nicholson’s Shadowlands, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, is now playing at London’s Aldwych Theatre until Saturday 9 May 2026. Aliya Al-Hassan, BroadwayWorld: ...

William Nicholson’s play – adapted from his own 1985 TV film of the same name – was first seen on stage in 1989. It was later made into another, more famous film, starring Anthony Hopkins in 1993. Now ...

This moving revival of William Nicholson’s Shadowlands turns a love story into a powerful exploration of grief, illness and shaken faith Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy ...