Passion play
by Ruhl, Sarah
Passion Play is Sarah Ruhl's "biggest, most ambitious effort yet" (The New York Times), a three-and-a-half hour intimate epic, plunging the depths of the timely intersection of politics and religion. Ruhl dramatizes a community of players rehearsing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1575 northern England, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual; 1934 Oberammergua, Bavaria, as Hitler is rising to power; and Spearfish, South Dakota, from the time of Vietna…
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- Full title :Passion play / Sarah Ruhl.
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Passion Play is Sarah Ruhl's "biggest, most ambitious effort yet" (The New York Times), a three-and-a-half hour intimate epic, plunging the depths of the timely intersection of politics and religion. Ruhl dramatizes a community of players rehearsing their annual staging of the Easter Passion in three different eras: 1575 northern England, just before Queen Elizabeth outlaws the ritual; 1934 Oberammergua, Bavaria, as Hitler is rising to power; and Spearfish, South Dakota, from the time of Vietnam through Reagan's presidency. In each period, the players grapple in different ways with the transformative nature of art, and politics are never far in the background, as Queen Elizabeth, Hitler, and Reagan each appear, played by a single commanding actor. - Publisher.
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- Publication Date:2010.
- Edition:First edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Theatre Communications Group
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 252 pages : : music ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781559363488, 1559363487
- oclc:ocn318877215
- LC Classification:PS3618.U48
- Dewey Decimal:812/.6
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