Picketing with Prometheus

by Scott Stavrou

Originally produced for the Prague Post Playwright festival, Picketing with Prometheus, reprinted for the first time here, is a comic stage play about all that goes wrong when you write the world. Hilarity ensues when Head Prophet Moses Destiny and his ambitious young sidekick Will Freed are on strike from the thankless task of writing mankind's destiny. Worried that mankind is floundering without their guidance, Moses and Will, along with a little help and inspiration from Jesus, who runs a popular little taco truck just outside the Pearly Gates, decide to get popular talk-show host and minor media god Steve Prometheus on their side in order to take their case to the people and the divine powers that be. Can even Steve Prometheus help them convince man or God that they're still relevant in these post-modern times? Do they – or mankind – have a future in the business of writing the world or has it all gone too far wrong?

Sit back and enjoy the follies and foibles of mankind's past as they all try to work together to see if mankind might have a future.

Irreverent and endearing, Picketing with Prometheus dishes up big laughs as it explores the very nature of mankind and free will.

70 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 12, 206

About the author

Scott Stavrou is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Losing Venice (People's Book Prize short-list 2019), the literary satire/humor collection Hemingway Lives: the Super-Secret, Never-Before-Published Blogs of Ernest Hemingway (PEN/Hemingway Award), the travel/humor book Wasted Away, the award-wining stage play Picketing with Prometheus as well as two original screenplays (Slapping Plastic & Changing Time Zones).

Stavrou has written fiction and non-fiction for numerous print & online publications. In addition to writing, he serves on the Board of Advisors for Write Away Europe, where he is also a Creative Writing Instructor.

Stavrou is from Las Vegas and a graduate of Georgetown University. Before becoming a writer he worked in advertising and PR and he has lived and worked as a writer in San Francisco, Venice, Prague, and the Greek islands where he and his wife presently call home.

More of Stavrou’s writing can be found at ScottStavrou.com and on Medium and Twitter.

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