A WRINKLE IN TIME, Lifeline Theatre. Lightning has struck the same stage twice: Lifeline is remounting James Sie’s adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s children’s sci-fi classic, debuted eight years ago in an ingenious staging by Meryl Friedman. Recalling The Wizard of Oz, this delightful 90-minute journey celebrates a girl who thwarts the forces of evil: Meg combines pluck and luck to rescue her father from an unspecified menace. An oddball who fears everything is her fault, she gets help from Calvin, a “popular big shot,” and from Charles Wallace, her precocious baby brother. Supernatural support is provided by three good witches–the quote-crazy Mrs. Who, the spellbinding Mrs. Which, and former star Mrs. Whatsit (all of them gorgeously costumed by Yslan Hicks). Harnessing the fifth-dimensional “tesseract” to trigger a “wrinkle in time,” the explorers visit a conformist city where all activities are performed in sync and confront the “dark place” that threatens an unsuspecting planet.
