Wednesday, November 2
7:00pm CST
Guerry Auditorium
Friends of the Library invites you to attend the Fifth Annual Tom G. Watson Memorial Event. This year, we are offering a play, An Evening with Lewis & Tolkien, written and directed by David Payne. The play will be held in Guerry Auditorium on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.
Everyone is invited to attend and there is no admission charge.
The year is 1963 and J.R.R. Tolkien is at an Oxford pub waiting for his long-time friend, C.S. Lewis, to arrive. Lewis is recovering from a heart attack and Tolkien is aware that Lewis’ failing health, means the opportunities for them to meet up may be less that either would like. Tolkien has chosen to meet in the Eagle & Child pub where, in the early years of their friendship, they met weekly – the pub they always referred to as The Bird & Baby.
This event is being co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library, Library and Information Technology Services, University Lectures Committee, School of Theology, Department of English, and Dialogue Across Difference.
