If you're Catholic, this script is for you. And if you're not, you'll learn a thing or two!
John Byrne's script, "The Temptation of Saint Anthony," was a great workshop session tonight. Saint Anthony and the Devil verbally spar and temptations fly throughout the script. The story is clever, and rightfully shows the true cost of righteousness.
The workshop session itself focused on the relationship between the characters, and if we had gotten enough of the characterizations early enough int he piece, before the conflict happens. Patrick Riviere and Barbara Bell joined me in the session and did a great reading of the script.
Once again, the workshop benefitted from having an author who was open about the script and receiving critique. John even said, "there's something missing from this, I think. help me find it." (OK, that was a paraphrase. His real words are in the audio recording.)
We also talked about experimenting with a new sort of workshop session, an anonymous workshop of sorts, with three scripts done by a team of authors and readers and workshopped anonymously. What would that do to the critique?
My thanks to John for his script and to Barbara and Patrick for their reading and critique!
You can listen to the audio recording of the session.