The boy preferred internal chronological order (starting with The Magician's Nephew) while his mother preferred publication order (starting with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe). The answer lies in a letter which Lewis wrote, dated April 1957, to a young American fan named Laurence Kreig. But you've asked only why publishers changed the order, which is much easier to answer objectively than which order is "best"/preferable. There’s a corrupt new king named Miraz (Sanjay Talwar) ruling the land and a lot of the magic is gone.The question of reading order for The Chronicles of Narnia is a complicated one, with much debate even among avid fans of the series.
Though it’s been just a year to them, 1,000 years have passed in Narnia and the place is a mess. From there, we catch up with the four kids - played by Marla McLean, Kyle Blair, Kiana Woo and Andrew Lawrie - as they’re whisked away to Narnia again while waiting for a train.īut Narnia isn’t as they remember it. We get a recap of the four kids who found their way to Narnia through a portal in their wardrobe and how they defeated the White Witch. Shaw’s production of “Prince Caspian” somewhat addresses this by having Fiona Byrne, in character as Caspian’s Tutor ‘The Doctor,’ explain the lay of the land. Wouldn’t it be more enticing for the audience to know that as one show ended, the next chapter awaits next season? There are seven books in the Narnia series - it feels like a lost opportunity doing them out of order like this. Instead of doing “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,” we’re getting the direct followup to that story.Īrtistic director Tim Carroll must have his reasons, but it makes little sense from a storytelling perspective. Now, with the chance again to start at the beginning, Shaw goes with the second book of the series. It was a cumbersome production that felt detached from what came before. Instead, the company made the confusing decision to stage “The Horse and His Boy” in 2019 - the fifth book in the series. It was the perfect primer for Shaw to continue the narrative with “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” - the actual first book of the series.
Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia” saga was a pure delight with the 2018 production of “The Magician’s Nephew.” Though it was the sixth book in the series it was a prequel story that set up many of the events to follow. “Prince Caspian” opens the summer season here (March’s brief run of “Mahabharata” officially opened the 2023 campaign) and with it comes the same problem that plagued the last visit to this fantasy world - a story out of order. But it appears this mystical place is losing some of its magic in Niagara-on-the-Lake. After a four-year hiatus, it’s back to Narnia for the Shaw Festival.
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