Narnia on Stage

Of all of the Narnia books to bring to the stage, The Horse and His Boy seems like it would be the most difficult. The story centers on a horse — actually, two horses — and two human children. Perhaps there is a reason that until recently, The Horse and His Boy had only been adapted for radio.

Bringing to life the other books in C. S. Lewis’s beloved Chronicles of Narnia series is difficult enough; to portray the side characters Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, for example, the 1988 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe put humans in massive beaver costumes, a choice that quickly became dated in the age of CGI. Without the benefits of technology, how would a talking horse come to life in a way that reanimates the book rather than distracting from the story?

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Madeline Fry Schultz

Madeline Fry Schultz is the assistant contributors editor at the Washington Examiner.

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Of all of the Narnia books to bring to the stage, The Horse and His Boy seems like it would be the most difficult. The story centers on a horse — actually, two horses — and two human children. Perhaps there is a reason that until recently, The Horse and His Boy had only been adapted for radio.

Bringing to life the other books in C. S. Lewis’s beloved Chronicles of Narnia series is difficult enough; to portray the side characters Mr. and Mrs. Beaver, for example, the 1988 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe put humans in massive beaver costumes, a choice that quickly became dated in the age of CGI. Without the benefits of technology, how would a talking horse come to life in a way that reanimates the book rather than distracting from the story?