innocent conspiracy theories can provide comfort you don't like reality create another version of. assume about knowledge and belief trust and deception. democracy of the gullible starts joy 1st on d. w. . was. every 10 years the spotlight forms on a small town and of area when its residents recreate the story of christ suffering and death half a 1000000 visitors folks into oberammergau they come from all over the world but the villages don't perform the passion play just a tourist they do it because they made

a vow to god to commemorate his goodness in this way when the plane the black death threaten their village with extinction 400 years ago as i type this persona spear the passion play lives from the fact that we have a message as many people and that we derive that message from the gospels that we ask ourselves what's important today when that's money and we focus on particular aspects of the story that's most like that as we look for the themes that are important for contemporary society of course the death of jesus is central to the passionate legacy but we ask god why did he die on the cross on his own courts that's what we need to focus on this sort of us why were the people so angry why were the religious leaders against him why did people follow him and what did he want to achieve we have to show all that in our passions like at least that's our intention avoiding that sayang.

oktober 2018. preparations are underway for the next oberon macau passion play. in a few minutes the names of the 2020 cost will appear on the sport. for the past 10 years the direct to christian struggle has wrestled with the difficult question which of the town's residents is most suited to put trade jesus while his mother mary who punches pilot now he's made his choice and it's been confirmed by the town council behind close doors both of those funny thing big even on the t. out there in every other theater in the world the director chooses the cast he wants but here it's not so simple that every resident born in or around the gulf or has lived here for 20 years has the right to

a role in the passion play so whether i want to or not i have to cast that i never start with a number for my 1st production in 1900 i had 1400 adults now we have 900 adults and 450 children to cuba and i like the fact that the qualification of being born in oberammergau your living here for 20 years says nothing about the person a social standing or religion their gender or their orientation mix this latest. debate with us was if this is a cross-section of our village the store feels. there's a lot of media interest who will try jesus to act as a chosen one of them has already played the role twice. frederick myatt remembers the 1st time he was cost. the majority thought that once you up there i wasn't expecting it because i was an odd part and then suddenly i saw my name on the board and i was gobsmacked it changes your life from one day to the next month

and that's he says leaving sean as the man who portrays christ you have a responsibility towards the village and the passion play off as a few of the focus of attention and you have to deal with that it. must come with to be over again. there are 2 actors for each of the main roles they alternate in more than 100 performances but if you put a listed on the board knows that their life will change after months of rehearsing they will perform the passion play for half a year that's hard to reconcile with a normal job to have a place one of the main roles usually has to take vacation for the length of the run the passion play demands everything of the participants. but it's not just the main roles that are announced today christians to kill an assistant director up to look aracoma have also decided who's to play roman

soldiers and residents of jerusalem. more than 2000 people will take part in the production. for most ober-ammergau families it's a tradition that's passed down from one generation to the next the home do i need 1st given that the a.b.'s that tradition is almost 400 years old everybody has pictures in their home showing grandad as a roman soldier or grandma is mary magdalene or your book that leave it everybody has some kind of connection with and even people who have just arrived in the village or want to be involved in some way but it could be that basically the seat of the for 12 months people hardly talk about anything but the passion because you'll get people's personal spiritual for that. that that's. his being. even what role is the talk of the town in a few months the so-called hair and beard to be proclaimed from then on men may no longer shave or cut their hair less of course their roman soldiers from the here's

a song for me personally it's a sign that we're all getting ready for the passion play. quite literally growing into the role at the here in the fall of the night vox. with a population of some 4 and a half 1000 ober-ammergau lives 100 kilometers south of munich on the northern edge of the alps germany's highest peak the sushi pizza and king boutique the 2nd scary tower palaces linda hold a close by no wonder the village is one of the various most popular tourist destinations. although the passion play is staged only once every 10 years it has a permanent influence on the village. the gospel story is painted on the facades of houses in all its variations. the numerous souvenir shops sell carvings of saints apostles and crucifixes. over on mcdowell represents

a tradition that makes the gospel narrative accessible in many forms. the villages crucifix carvers are as famous as its passion play which has been attracting visitors since the 19th century. some with them were english critics as it was free the british the swedish and the danish royals and the austrian hausberg have all been here little. 1. 101. 100 mired knows he'll be tied up here for the next 10 months 5 times a week from mid may until october the residents of oberammergau will rehearse jesus's suffering and death each performance lasts more than 5 hours it's a mammoth undertaking device to come from from a $1500.00. 1000 visitors come from all over the world to see the passion play at the end is jesus you are at the center of things and that's where you just so you have a responsibility each day that you appear on the stage to perform as well as you

possibly can to go to bed early the night before to know other lives and to stay healthy because really after portraying jesus has had a bad day it's especially noticeable on those of. his a festive atmosphere in oberon macau today the villages enjoy celebrating and they also like to do so on stage 12 months before the passion play they put on a show depicting the play that led to the village committing itself to a tradition of religious theater. was the mention of. his. experience $1633.00 the black death is ravaging southern germany bringing still more death and destruction in the wake of the 30 years war the village goes into lockdown to stave off the epidemic but a man from a neighboring village already infected with the plague manages to circumvent the

watchmen the result is predictable. the black death carries off children women and men. to the grave digger played by raucous ripple who's also one of the actors portraying jesus in the passion play as his hands for my finally the residents of oberammergau discover a way out of their suffering i want to say because i see more. that as they can see that i am. other. big gods and share. your necessary i was sad that. i feel that sorry that i got. the promise to stage

a passion play every 10 years eventually defeated the plague the village chronicle relates that from the day they took the vow nobody in the village died of the disease well. i like to say this here that i am. in. the. october the 20th 20 a change on this day it's not just actors appearing on the stage at the ober-ammergau theater but real priests in an edgy many could serve as the village residence for a new devout. 16th century straight as they do before every stage and it's a passion play. i like to play this live this get tight the fresh. fit go back out. to. be out.

of. israel by jewish christian music my quiet must among speak is one of the great passion hymns in the trunk in the bomb and on the bells and on the sets and i think there's a different approach to religion. but often outside of the church the church has the same problems here as in the neighboring villages in the. us i have received life. to go but i'm a couple films don't view that passion play is a specifically catholic event and have been for decades but when to write to christians who gave one of the main roles to a muslim it caused something of a stir. but i can also pray in arabic because we muslims also pray in their vic the. mind of god from my whole family who live as muslims even my relatives in turkey in the my grandmothers and grandfathers and my cousins are all pleased you know this age they know very well

but it's a christian play but they say it's great you're doing it. you don't have to be a christian to understand religion for state. the cost is presented to the media the special interest in the fact that change is good or a muslim will be playing a change he changes. it is for all this is for i've been asked if it's a provocation that a young man from a turkish family is playing judas no it's not us and casting the roles my only consideration is who i can envision playing who i see in the role. how good to see our state. would be. if. they'll devour sheep and cattle they will not starve that worked out. winter 2019 the 1st rehearsals of cold they held in the town smaller theater the

actors familiarize themselves with the new script in small groups playing judas genghis crew tries to persuade jesus to lead a rebellion against the roman occupiers this concentrated work on the script opens up new perspectives. when you suspect that's what i mean if i end up in the think of my image of jesus has changed a bit after all the changes to the script were changing the performance a bit and also seeing the roles a bit differently so he's also thought to myself that's what jesus is really more than jesus meant that he was a person who wanted to teach people how to behave towards each other to love one another and even when it's hard. it's violence is no solution as it divides can and you have to draw the good out of people's this and not simply hope for the best selves and people have to stand up and do something themselves and the people don't understand that dimension is pushed on if they're stupid. when somebody slots us in the face we're supposed to tolerate it. you know

they're. still cool isn't system the act is imagine how they carry it to thinks and feels this involves dealing with religious issues. based if you do so if you aren't really interested in what were portraying here and that includes an interest in religion then you can be part of it in many of the discussions we've had here of course i've noticed that he brings a different perspective a muslim perspective to the last supper and other things he has a genuine interest in the production truck the other week to. you you go to lead them the people will rise and will drive the wretched romans from our land . you do not be afraid of the romans do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul rather be afraid of the one who can destroy both soul and body love your enemies. course no one has missed most

of course when you have one of the big roles you have to approach it differently it was possible and i must say i found a completely new understanding through the passion play and by portraying jesus as myth in team in order. i think about the themes and jesus message it slightly differently. i have to say i've developed a new enthusiasm for the themes from the heart i view it as a great gift to be able to think about these issues so intensely and since it's the mythos otherwise you can perhaps only do this as a student of the ology we have the opportunity to think about them intensely every 10 years and i've got to say it's. never not often after his assistance if i thought of all can't i often used to

think that jesus is arrogant when he says i am the way but i think he means it differently so i am the way to god to i'll show you i'll tell you if you do this and be like this decision of this is side in which we live would be better and the best of jesus is often quite pragmatic and straightforward talk matters and he says if somebody is hungry give them something to eat and when somebody is naked even close that's got something for when he's a stranger give them shelter that's very simple. and that's what makes me think of so i jesus is like a compass as a device he knows what's good and what's bad is of you to mention actually everyone knows intuitively what's good and what's bad the uses for in jesus challenges us to follow that inner voice and say do what's good and don't do what the bad. that's very simple is consonant on orientate you on god not in what's better in the world what sort of what's more just best service in the event of

a stiff this event and to stop. he's a he's a boat and i think that churches have sometimes forgotten how to bring this message across. they often focus on whether it's right to let divorcees who remarried go to communion in the bishop so suddenly important. but jesus was definitely with the people. they mention he broke bread with judas people nobody's perfect so you have to be able to forgive and he shared bread with somebody and maybe did something wrong by this. i think jesus wouldn't think about it for a 2nd and it's equally to going off thinking i've been stuck in my skin and marriages can crash sometimes it happens like this inside so but when somebody finds a new partner he shouldn't be excluded off of the he also just wasn't going to haha then if you think. that you should have.

had. to. die and believe they should. be enough to do it so move. on it was loopy this is my 4th production and i remember when i was 25 and directed the passion play for the 1st time the actor playing jesus had to take a lot from me that was i was a young rebel so jesus had to be rebellious to get there it was very important to me that jesus was rebellious. but one grows older and suddenly in 2010 i thought it's not important to me at all whether he's allowed to take the mic and suddenly i discovered places in the gospels that said i will not cry out and one will not hear my voice in the streets he wasn't somebody who got ahead through a noise and rebelliousness but resolutely and it's really interesting that you

discover jesus a new every 10 years makes. yes that's what's on for the 2020 production the context stubbornly became much more important to me that all the refugees and people on the margins of society are treated. i discovered the social jesus much more strongly and i thought it's crazy that there were similar social issues 2000 years ago. i was a stranger and you didn't give me shelter if i was poor and you didn't give me anything to eat then if you look in that direction you're sadly find that jesus gives very clear answers as to how we treat foreigners and refugees or people on the margins of society we shouldn't treat them as we do it's not what jesus intended. oberammergau in the group of bishop called even though there haven't been the usual heavy snowfalls this year the passion play theater is the largest building in if

you know each and was constructed in $898.00 is specially to stage the play some other musical and theatrical performances also take place here but it's 1st and foremost the passion play theatre. it is. the full rehearsals are held in freezing temperatures for the 1st time in the history of the passion play each actor is registered elektra mcleish attendance at rehearsals is compulsory another reason to check attendance even actors playing minor roles receive some financial compensation. the men under c.s. to my practice the 1st rehearsals in a passion play theatre give you a wonderful feeling. before that is a song to rehearsed in a little theatre that's employed but here you have the feeling that these people

are people you've hardly seen for 10 years in the minds of this. suddenly the village gathers and stands together on the stage in the future and there are many wonderful people among them since the author of the scene you come to the passion play theater for the 1st time aged 4 by still for 6 months or 7 then 10 years later you're a teenager and you recognize that it's a great experience inside the village has a great time putting on this production with an audience of people develop an emotional connection to the passion play the very young kids as a child or as a teenager that's the office you know after the youngest have just as much right to be on stage as the oldest people over 90 and it's a great experience for all of them and wonderful times too and it's. this year of the shadows by alarming reports of a life threatening virus on march the 11th the world health organization detailed

kind of that 900 pandemic could the place to be staged. with just 3 months to go before the 1st performance unfinished props i scattered around the world he tore in. a police suspect the passion play is part of our d.n.a. we need it as you get that feeling at rehearsals i have it now when i call a rehearsal for 450 kids they come straight away it was for me a lot of ways of going to form little groups run around and shout big about out or shout stop it stop me old sheep and goats kick up a racket but with a lot of the. the that's the orchestra pit watch out i've kept this week i always say that's why the passion play has survived so long because it's our biggest social event. everyone needs out from every section of society women men children and teenagers old and young. it's

simply our. the biggest social event and everybody wants to take part is. that i. was. the outside this. is a hands on direct. for all the effort of the of august the august both have the box ripe what they have got was right there right handed right have faith that it shocked out i don't think the trunk of all of. much 192025 flags at the entrance to the abaco at the time of the great event but a shadow who's fooled on the production this year the village council would even embellish its kind of alms with the passion play as cool to press conference the play has to be cancelled he said that the truly bit of a ritual overcome ago has of course become economically dependent on the passion

play and this will probably hit lots of people hard. what we've seen very clearly at rehearsals during the past few weeks is that the residents of oberammergau are totally committed to their passion play and everybody sorry it won't take place now evolving from the moment at that moment i felt almost relieved but the actors were also standing around the square other people who i knew were crushed by the decision they take an unpaid vacation or dropped out of university for a term used to. get me for hirst almost every evening for months on end. all of the length of the month it looked as if i was a it was like a bubble burst a little bit and i also feel deflated to. be able to talk after the plots. off the opposite when they cancelled the play lots of people were depressed so was

i it was like somebody flew in the rug out from under your feet all my plans for next year were turned upside down if not all of it was decided yesterday evening that we won't cancel the passion play so it's a postponed until may 21st 2022 for shipping. it's i want to call that the threat of a pandemic what's made ober-ammergau famous for $400.00 g. is has now temporarily closed the village. the portrayal of christ's suffering and death which the residents of oberammergau vowed to perform when their village was struck by the plague in 1633 famously ends with christ's resurrection that message of hope is part of our program accounts legacy this time on the actors will just have to wait another 2 means to proclaim it. to start certainly christiane said everyone will play the same parts will all come together in 2 years

let's hope it's in good health i'm already looking forward to it.

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