Screwtape
By James Forsyth
Screwtape is a play that needs 12 or more performers (5 women, 7 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 12 or more performers
- Roles
- 5 women, 7 men
- Cast notes
- 7m., 5w. No
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
Screwtape, a senior devil from hell, has delegated some authority to a junior fiend, Wormwood, whose assignment is to seize the soul of a very human and lovable young man. This might be called a devilish dramatic contest with high-level meaning thrashed out in terms of brilliant low-level comedy. The rather charming Wormwood is being critically supervised in this, his first case, by that extraordinary devil, Screwtape. Advice from this old hand from hell is devastatingly perceptive of human foib
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