Anybody read The Screwtape Letters?

Thanks Tbird

Somehow I knew you had and would be my first reply

I just finished reading it and realized there's only been like one play adaptation of it and it was pretty literal. Just Screwtape reading his letters basically. Mine is going to be more like a normal play, I will go back and forth between showing the human's life and then the correspondence between Wormwood and Screwtape separately.

It actually was a all-out theater production, but it just took the play extremely literally.
Screwtape Onstage Website

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It was a hit in NYC where it played 309 performances at the Westside Theatre in 2010. Prior to that it ran for six months in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune described THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS as the "most successful show in the history of Chicago's Mercury Theatre." It, also, had two engagements at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. where it played for ten sold-out weeks.

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The only other character besides Screwtape is Toadpipe, his secretary, who is just a creepy contortionist thing

That's my idea. I think most people stay away from it because they see the lack of action and see limitations. I see freedom.

I want some feedback on the character designs, as this is how characters portrayed in the play.

Do the pictures do justice to how you would imagine the characters to look/act?

A couple of fun facts (since we're the only two in this thread )

I'm going to name the human Curtis Sherwood Lewis.
It's giving double credit, one to C.S. Lewis, and one to the picture I used to help design the human character. I found a picture on google images of Lewis Curtis, a British Soldier who died in WWII. his remains were found in 1999 and ID'd in 2008.



Also, I based Screwtape's face off of a picture of CM Punk as Satan

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Do the pictures do justice to how you would imagine the characters to look/act?

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Idk, my mind's eye interpreted the demons as having normal-looking visages for camoflaging effect.

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Idk, my mind's eye interpreted the demons as having normal-looking visages for camoflaging effect.

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Thanks for honest feedback.

In my play's context, they won't be visible to humans at all. There will be scenes where Screwtape are actually in the room with Curtis talking while he is obliviously doing whatever routine things

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In my play's context, they won't be visible to humans at all. There will be scenes where Screwtape are actually in the room with Curtis talking while he is obliviously doing whatever routine things

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Yeah, and see, that works just fine, too.

I think I'm just lazy and it was easier for me to visualize them as being normal looking, but in the context of the story, it doesn't really matter

Imma check out your art when I go to the gym in the morning I can only see a few of your images and it's annoying, but I like what I see!

I'm also jealous. Stick figures give me trouble

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With the character art, do they seem to have expressions/features that go with what you think their personality is?

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I like the other two.

With Screwtape himself, perhaps a little more of a "clueless" or "deer-in-the-headlights" kinda look? idk....

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If I made Screwtape more clueless, do you think the current version would be good for Satan?

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Yesh, my imgaginatively challenged mind could roll with that

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I cannot guarantee it will affect my decisions

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My advice? Take my words, and do exactly the opposite

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He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand... Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

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