Submit your creative works to Flashes >>HERE<< .'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of view of a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't believe in God, or can't work out what he's playing at.
There are fourteen of these plays, and the first is now online: 'The Creation (and the Fall of Lucifer)'.
http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries
There's aspects of this that are humorous (befitting a mystery play), like Satan calling Jesus a hippie, or Michael's suggestion that the throne's paint is still wet. I like that. But the dialogue in general doesn't really pop, especially the initial dialogue between God and Satan. It's just kind of plodding and tedious. Maybe if you worked to "hear" the voice of the characters in your head, or incorporated more blocking, the play would feel more dynamic.
"So long is the way to the unknown, long is the way we have come. . ." ~ Turisas, Five Hundred and One
"[An artist is] an idiot babbling through town. . .crying, 'Dreams, dreams for sale! Two for a kopek, two for a song; if you won't buy them, just take them for free!'" ~ Michael O' Brien, Sophia House
Christ is risen from the dead,
trampling on Death by death,
And on those in the tombs,
lavishing light.
Thanks for taking the time to read and respond, Arrow.
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