Scriptio is a webserie about literature. It revolves around Rouge (Red), a criminal with the ability to shifts between worlds with her cape, and her favorite victim, Anastasia, a young aristocrat crazy about literature. Together they are trying to assemble a group of characters to execute the machievelious plan of Rouge. Even episodes present a literary character through his encounter with one or both of them, while uneven episodes unravels the plot.
‘Don Juan and the Stone Host’, Molière, 1682. A play with both tragedy and comedy characteristics, presenting an aristocrat who rejects the social codes of his time, and go from a woman to another. The character turned into a myth and inspired numerous revisings, some of them mentioned in the episode. ‘The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest’, Tirso de Molina, 1630 (the first Don Juan, Spanish play); ‘Don Giovanni’, text by Da Ponte and music by Mozart, 1787 (Italian opera); ‘Don Juan on trial’, Eric Emmanuel-Schmidt, 1991 (French play), ‘Purgatory souls’, Prosper Mérimée, 1834 (French short story); ‘The most beautiful love of Don Juan’, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, 1874 (French short story, from ‘Les diaboliques’).