Taproot Theatre is hitting the half-century mark, and they aren’t playing it safe with a standard greatest-hits revival. Instead, the Greenwood staple is opening its 50th season with a world premiere adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces, running now through February 28, 2026.

Producing Artistic Director Karen Lund spent years chipping away at this script. It’s an ambitious swing, considering Lewis himself ditched the talking lions and wardrobe portals for this particular story. He took the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche and twisted it into a gritty, psychological study of Orual, a queen-to-be who spends her life nursing a grudge against the gods.

The plot kicks off when Orual heads into the mountains to bury her sister, Psyche, who was left as a sacrifice. She finds Psyche very much alive and claiming to inhabit a palace that Orual simply cannot see. What follows is less of a fairy tale and more of a courtroom drama played out in the mind of a woman caught between her own logic and her sister’s apparent delusions.

Lund handles the direction here as well, moving the action through the primitive, mud-and-bronze atmosphere of the fictional kingdom of Glome. The production sidesteps the usual “faith-based” tropes often associated with Lewis. Instead, it leans into the messy, uncomfortable friction of sisterhood and the exhaustion of demanding proof from a silent universe.

With 50 years under its belt, Taproot is celebrating their milestone year as more than just a birthday, and leading with this kind of creative ambition makes it clear there is still plenty of new ground to break on the Greenwood stage.