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<div><p><B>Named one of the "Ten Best Plays of 2008" by <I>The New Yorker</I></B></p><p>&ldquo;Sarah Ruhl&rsquo;s bold, inventive, and ironic triptych [is] a meditation on devotion and its appropriation by the state. . . . Ruhl is an original; a storyteller with a fine mind evolving her own theatrical idiom.&rdquo;&mdash;John Lahr, <I>The New Yorker</I></p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a different kind of morality play . . . an often wondrous work . . . with [Ruhl&rsquo;s] own special lyrical blend of poetry, humor and grace.&rdquo;&mdash;Frank Rizzo, <I>Variety</I></p><p><I>Passion Play</I> is Sarah Ruhl&rsquo;s &ldquo;biggest, most ambitious effort yet&rdquo; (<I>The New York Times</I>), 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&rsquo;s presidency. In each period, the players grapple in different ways with the

Who reads Passion Play?

Author

Ruhl, Sarah

Publisher

Theatre Communications Group : Made available through hoopla

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781559366649

Category

religious

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion

Rating

4.21 / 5 (251 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13