"The Screwtape Letters" - Playing in Washington, D.C.

Interview: 'Screwtape' Actor on Playing a Demon, Modern Temptation

"Whereas in our day, again going back to Lewis, the idea of the devil and Satan is being minimized in our culture and yet we are very quick to point out how much evil there is in the world. But where is that evil rooted, where does it come from, and where does it come from in our hearts?

So we don’t have to personify him in a particular way, but we do have to recognize that he is there and he is God’s enemy. It is like what John Milton said in ‘Paradise Lost’ – he’d rather rule in hell than serve in heaven and he’d like us to go with him."