The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (play) directed by Julia Beardsley O'Brien and stage managed by Lila Neiswanger. The current cast features Rockford Sansom and Abigail Taylor-Sansom. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (play) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is an American dramatization of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis, the British children's novel that inaugurated "The Chronicles of Narnia" in 1950. The one-act play for two actors was written by Le Clanché du Rand and published in 1989 by Dramatic Publishing of Woodstock, Illinois. It is licensed by Dramatic to theaters worldwide. One production opened in 2011 Off-Broadway in
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe As such the film begins with the Luftwaffe bombing and concludes with an enormous battle, although they do not take up as much time in the novel. In the novel, the battle is not seen until Aslan, Susan, Lucy and their reinforcements arrive. This was changed in the movie because Adamson said he could vividly remember a huge battle, an example of how Lewis left a lot to the readers' imagination. Other small changes include the reason all four children come to Narnia, in that an accident breaks a window and forces them to hide. Tumnus also never meets Edmund