NEW YORK—Max McLean masterfully embodies British novelist, literary critic, and scholar C.S. Lewis in the quietly moving one-man show “The Most Reluctant Convert.” The man who penned “The Chronicles of Narnia,” Lewis was a confirmed atheist, who, after years of intellectual inquisitiveness, came to believe in the existence of God, Jesus Christ, and a world beyond the one in which we live.
In his study at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1950 (where he was on the faculty for over 25 years), Lewis recounts, in a scholarly and at times nonlinear fashion, events that shaped the beliefs he now holds.
Lewis eventually came to his conversion begrudgingly.
