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Named one of the Ten Best Plays of 2008 by The New Yorker Sarah Ruhlsbold inventive and ironic triptych is a meditation on devotion and itsappropriation by the state. . . . Ruhl is an original a storyteller with afine mind evolving her own theatrical idiom.John Lahr The New YorkerIts a different kind of morality play . . . an often wondrous work . . .with Ruhls own special lyrical blend of poetry humor and grace.FrankRizzo Variety Passion Play is Sarah Ruhls biggest most ambitious effortyet The New York Times a threeandahalf hour intimate epic plunging thedepths of the timely intersection of politics and religion. Ruhl dramatizes acommunity of players rehearsing their annual staging of the Easter Passion inthree different eras 1575 northern England just before Queen Elizabethoutlaws the ritual 1934 Oberammergua Bavaria as Hitler is rising to powerand Spearfish South Dakota from the time of Vietnam through Reaganspresidency. In each period the players grapple in different ways with thetransformative nature of art and politics are never far in the background asQueen Elizabeth Hitler and Reagan each appear played by a single commandingactor. Sarah Ruhls plays include Dead Mans Cell Phone Eurydice and TheClean House which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has beenwidely produced both throughout the country and internationally and she is therecipient of the MacArthur Genius Fellowship. «
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