POSTSCRIPTS - PASSION PLAY NOW EASTER TRADITION FOR MANY FAMILIES
All of the Cincinnati performances of the St. John Passion Play are booked, but there's still time to get a seat for the play's five Northern Kentucky stagings at St. Augustine Church in Covington over the next two weeks.The St. John Passion Play has been produced here for 76 years and has become a rite of the Easter season for many families. The play tells the story of Christ's last days on earth in first century Jerusalem. "It is a huge...
MORE CHANGES URGED IN 'PASSION PLAY'
As The Passion Play unfolded before him, Rabbi A. James Rudin felt uneasy at first, then shocked, and finally angry.''I sat there looking as the Jewish people, my people, were represented slowly, inexorably, as a cruel, unjust people with a cruel, unfair law,'' says Rudin, who saw the famous morality play six years ago. From now through Sept. 28, a half-million people from around the world -- about 40 percent of them American -- will attend...
TEENS TO PERFORM PASSION PLAY
When 16-year-old Emmanuel Aguilar portrays Jesus in this year's production of the Passion Play at Church of the Good Shepherd, it will be the fulfillment of a dream.But it won't be the first time he's been nailed to a cross. Aguilar played the good thief crucified next to Christ in his first year of the Easter-season dramatic performance. The Pittsburg High School student, a lifelong member of the church, has been watching the Passion Play every year...
HITLER'S CROSS TO BEAR
GERMAN TOWN DIVIDED OVER DIRECTION OF ITS PASSION PLAY
Nothing is quite as it seems in this ancient village, where spectacular alpine scenery and the world's most famous Passion play have lured hordes of American tourists since World War II. A 42-year-old mother of two is the Virgin Mary. The mayor is a Roman soldier. The owner of Oberammergau's oldest hotel is Pontius Pilate. And the local dentist is Jesus Christ, although he aspires to grander things.As for the town itself, the pastoral setting and gemutlich houses...