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What is Passion Play about?
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.
- Author
- Sarah Ruhl
- Publisher
- Samuel French, Inc.
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780573699085
- Subjects
- Music, Literary Fiction, Political Science
- Rating
- 3.51 / 5 (353 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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