Passion play
By: by Sarah Ruhl
Edition: Samuel French acting ed.
Publisher: Samuel French
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780573699085
Subjects: Passion-plays; Drama; Religion and politics
Description: An exploration of the relationships between religion, performance, and life. Part I is set in 1575 in an English village whose traditional annual passion-play is about to be outlawed by Queen Elizabeth's anti-Catholic rulings; Part II is set in Oberammergau, 1934, as the town and the play are becoming Nazified; Part III takes place in an American small town from 1969 through the Reagan era and the present.