This past weekend my boyfriend and I traveled to Stratford, Canada to see a stage adaptation of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."We booked these tickets months ago--as soon as I saw the program for this year, I knew we had to see it. I spent the past few months imagining what it would be like and it was nothing like I thought it would be; it was better.

Everyone knows the C.S. Lewis classic, which inspired the play, so rather than focus on the story, I will cover how they presented it all. I was delighted by the costuming and set design. One of the biggest things I had been pondering was how they planned to present Aslan the Lion. They used a giant wire body sculpture, sparsely covered with pages from books. Two men stood inside the sculpture and moved it around. They used similar costume structures for the centaur and unicorn in the play. Aslan was beautiful and majestic, the book page theme was present throughout the entire play. They used stacks of books as scene props and as small stages. Projectors displayed scenes onto backsplashes, which had quotes from the book superimposed onto them. Even the costumes had a literary element; the aprons on a few of the secondary characters had a text print.

The whole play had a whimsical fairy tale spirit to it. The actors put their heart and soul into their performance and the audience young and old were completely charmed. This is definitely worth seeing for anyone venturing to Stratford this fall!