The Mystery Plays
by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Directed by Paula Bennett
The stories in the plays illuminate (or perhaps cast ever widening
shadows) on the blindness of fate and the mystery of forgiveness. Like
the Medieval mystery plays from the early church (and comic books from
the 1990s) the themes are death, the afterlife, faith, fate and
religion.
Because The Mystery Plays are two separate yet interweaving short
stories, The Filmmakers Mystery and Ghost Children, I decided to write a
unifying theme to connect them and wrote variations on that theme that
were specific to each story (similar to the Twilight Zone, etc.).